Quotes About Originality

truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Don't race against others. Race against yourself

Innovation always trumps repeating what might have worked in the past

Innovation Mastery

Exponential creativity demands abnormality. And requires us to deviate from ordinary company.

Y en mi vida personal, hago lo mismo: solo como la mejor comida, aunque en pequeñas cantidades; solo leo los libros más originales y profundos; paso el tiempo en los espacios más luminosos e inspiradores y visito los lugares más fascinantes.

Todos los grandes hombres y mujeres del mundo son personas que dan, no toman. Renunciad a la creencia común de que aquellos que más acumulan son los que más ganan. En lugar de eso, escoged un trabajo heroico: que deje perplejo a vuestro mercado por la calidad de su originalidad y por la utilidad que ofrece.

job that might be smothering your soul. Dealing with stressful worries and endless responsibilities that stifle your originality and steal your energy. Lusting after unimportant pursuits and hungry for the instant fulfillment of trivial desires, often driven by a technology that enslaves us instead of liberating us.

las personas realmente esclarecidas nunca buscan ser como otros, sino que persiguen ser superiores a su propio yo.

Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces.

When mediocrity is common, create masterwork.

Do not rush to follow the crowd, it might be a funeral procession

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

In literature, it's called plagiarism. In the movies, it's homage.

Originality requires learning, hard work, the mastery of a medium and – most of all – the refined sensibility and openness to experience that have suffering and solitude as their normal cost.

Artists and critics get together in order to take themselves in, the artists posing as the originators of astonishing breakthroughs, the critics posing as the penetrating judges of the true avant-garde.

In figurative painting, in tonal music, in the cliché-ridden poems of heroic love and mythic glory, we find the same disease – the artist is not exploring the human heart but creating a puffed-up substitute, and then putting it on sale.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.

Why do what everyone else is doing?

Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road to mediocrity.

DON'T TOUCH A CLICHÈ WITH A TEN-FOOT POLE

Art presupposes nature, whereas nature doesn't presuppose art. Man's creative abilities, which are more admirable than any of his products, are not themselves produced my man: the genius of Shakespeare was not the work of Shakespeare. Nature supplies not only the materials but also the models for all arts;

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard: but if he will apply himself to learn from the objects of nature he will produce good results. This we see was the case with the painters who came after the time of the Romans, for they continually imitated each other, and from age to age their art steadily declined.

You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.