Quotes About Originality

Don't follow in my footsteps. Be original, and create your own path. Be a trailblazer! Do you! Be better than me. Do you! Be happy and have joy in your life.

The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Don't worry what others are doing. Do you!

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

I never stole a joke in my life. I just find them before they're lost.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

I've been myself my whole life.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress