Quotes About Originality

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

Artists aren't really people. I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

When you have one idea per year, it's already a miracle!

No artist wants to be perceived as a regurgitator.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

Perfection is really boring!

I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am.

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.

If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

As a performer, the thing you want the most is to be your authentic self.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

When we came up, groups and bands and performers were interested in being their own thing. They wanted to make sure that they had their own identity.

When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

I think it's important for people to be themselves and express themselves through their makeup or their hair or their perfume or whatever it may be.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.