Quotes About Originality

In film, in general, you have just so many cliche themes or stories that are told over and over again.

You forgot how to be awesome because you were too busy being cool

Fine! You guys can all be beautiful snowflakes! I'm gonna go over here and be an awkward snowflake!

Competitors must be monitored, but never mimicked

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

By definition, inventing new ideas requires you to think about things that are not already in your mind.

If you can define the problem differently than everybody else in the industry, you can generate alternatives that others aren't thinking about.

Mastery is an enabling condition for originality, which in turn, is a generative condition for mastery. The modes are interdependent.

There's about six original people in the world. The rest of everybody else are copycats. When it comes to religion and politics, ninety percent of people do what their parents did and think they made up their minds for themselves. They watch the news to see what the latest trends are.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." -Rollo May

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

It's a great time to be a creator. Trust your creativity.

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

Here was a demonstration of what Howells maintained—at just about this time—was his most liberating literary strength, his "single-minded use of words, which he employs as Grant did to express the plain, straight meaning their common acceptance has given them . . . He writes English as if it were a primitive and not a derivative language, without Gothic or Latin or Greek behind it."13

It should be obvious why it's easier to copy someone else's painting, rather than work on site or even from a photograph. All the selection, rejection and design have already been done for you.

All great creativity is cathartic..hence original..

We need to think of imagination not as the faculty that produces visual or auditory images but as a combination of novelty and luck.

We need to think of imagination not as the faculty that produces visual or auditory images but as a combination of novelty and luck. To be imaginative, as opposed to being merely fantastical is to do something new and to be lucky enough to have that novelty be adopted by one's fellow humans, incorporated into their social practices.

The best disguise is to be yourself.

I feel, in a word, the need as [Wladyslaw] Heine would say, to "say something great" Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I feel that within me there is maturing a completely new and original form which dispenses with the usual formulas and patterns and breaks them down Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I feel with utter certainty that something is there, that something will be born.*

I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.