Quotes About Originality

a ausência de talento é uma bênção, verificou ele; só que custa a gente habituar-se a isso. E assumida a sua condição de homem comum reduzido aos raros voos de perdiz de uma poesia ocasional, sem a corcunda da imortalidade agarrada às costas, sentia-se livre para sofrer sem originalidade e dispensado de rodear os seus silêncios da muralha de taciturna inteligência que associava ao génio.

Ca s? scrii, nu trebuie s? fii inteligent. Tre­buie s? fii un idiot sclipitor.

it is the uncreative who are most likely to confuse a mere lifestyle with a creative discovery.

Every new idea, every great idea, when it first began was in a minority of one.

É certo — pergunta Jutta — fazer algo apenas porque todas as outras pessoas estão fazendo?

Almost two hundred thousand books are published in the UK every year and although some of them will have the advantage of a well-known author attached, the vast majority have just two or three words on a surface measuring no more than six by nine inches to sell themselves. Titles have to be short, smart and meaningful, easy to read, easy to remember and original. That's asking a lot.

I am okay doing negative role provided it is out of the box.

I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

While some artists hunt for more groundbreaking ideas, A Hawk and a Hacksaw finds novelty in tradition, proving that what's new depends only on who's listening.

Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocative's sake, but to show an idea that hasn't been shown before, I mean that's interesting to me.

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.

We are always getting photos and publicity from people who want to act in Andy's movies. We always throw them away. They don't seem to realize that the last thing we'd put into a movie is an actor. Because all the other movies use actors.

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

I pride myself on being excellent at fancy dress, and I have dressed up as Ronald McDonald, Lady Gaga, a Christmas pudding and a crocodile to name but a few.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

How I did the first 'DiCaprio,' it was mine. I was pulling from everywhere. I was getting stuff from movies. I was getting stuff from interviews. Everywhere. And it was fine, because it was just put out for free on SoundCloud.

I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.

There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

We've never tried to be anybody else but Five Finger Death Punch.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.