Quotes About Originality

I refuse to live a conventional life.

What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality.

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

And if you think about Soft Cell, Depeche or Human League, these were people who didn't know what they were doing, there was no musicianship involved. There wasn't any training; it was people's ideas going straight down onto tape, without having to deal with all the niceties of being a good keyboard player, and it was this new whole new sound of electronic music.

Steve Strange: I ran a very tight ship in terms of my door policy. I wanted creative-minded pioneers there who looked like a walking piece of art, not some drunken, beery lads. The best move I made was turning Mick Jagger away at the door. He was wearing trainers.

Driven by the hunger for fame and originality, we are like these monkeys, thinking that we are so clever in discovering things and convincing our fellow humans to see what we see, think what we think, driven by ambition to be the savior, the clever one, the seer of all. We have all kinds of small ambitions, such as impressing a girl, or big ambitions, such as landing on Mars. And

Having genius means to digest influences while losing all footprint and trace of them.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

You don't try to be anyone else and that is a very hard thing in this world. It may seem unimportant right now when fitting in would be so much easier. But later you'll see. Being who you are is everything.

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.

It is not their standard of craftmanship which is different from ours, but their ideas.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine - the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.

I don't believe in suiting my conversation to my company

independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice ... it is conformity." And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity — people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.

I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.