Quotes About Originality

I don't pronounce all my words exactly how they do on the BBC. I am who I am.

Nothing creative functions well when fenced in or leaning on a prop. A contract is a fence and a prop.

I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.

I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

It's an amazingly daunting prospect to play any part you've seen someone else play brilliantly.

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.

Every new idea in any field needs protection.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

I haven't been a prototype mother.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

I've never been part of a movie I would watch over and over again, and I'm really proud of it.

Whatever I write is coming out of me naturally. There's nothing to prove. Everything has been proven already.

Why must you see everything secondhand? Why must this be a play? Why must my conscience be a pre-Raphelite picture?

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter - as indissolubly as if they were conceived together…. - The Crack-Up

I know I'm not a regular fellow, yet I loathe anybody else that isn't.

I did not faintly resemble a rose.

If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type: begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing. That is because we are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want anyone to know or than we know ourselves.