Quotes About Originality

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

An artist's most valuable asset is individuality.

Everyone wears a mask. I just chose to create my own.

It needs time, perspective, to show you that someone might be original.

What differentiates sellers today is their ability to bring fresh ideas.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

nothing is original. steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination

Where's your will to be weird?

Where's your will to be weird?

Don't just embrace the crazy, sidle up next to it and lick its ear.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.

Only in art were there cliches; never in nature. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with surprise inside.

On a shrunken planet where nearly every mountain bears bootprints and every mile of river has been run, being 'first' tends to require creative task definition" (111).

I don't do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)

But then Macon smiled at me. "Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world.

He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.