Quotes About Originality

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth which has already been recognised by others.

Live the life you're living and try and stay who you are

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.

All movies are different, all movies have their own life.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.

It's easy to live the expected and conventional. It's when you live the unexpected that you start having fun with your life.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight

The key to life is imagination.

Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Life is mostly freehand.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

It's all experience; not anything original

You have to invent life.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.