Quotes About Originality

Words for completely novel concepts and technical breakthroughs are devised as soon as needed, explained with ease and absorbed with scarcely an effort by all who need them. This ability to innovate in language is crucial to every scientific advance, to our intellectual curiosity, to our originality as human individuals, because it is crucial to our ability to communicate new ideas and discoveries.

Don't be a slave to any notation;

There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.

Creativity is the only viable source of change.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

She was wearing a wonderful Claudia outfit — a purple-and-white striped bodysuit under a gray jumper-thing. The legs of the bodysuit stretched all the way to her ankles, but she was wearing purple push-down socks anyway. Around her middle was a wide purple belt with a buckle in the shape of a telephone. And on her feet were black ballet slippers.

Another of my homonym rules is that I have to think of the homonyms myself. What is the point of looking at someone else's list and copying it? My list is original.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Your work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good is not original!

He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from

To be inventive, to have ideas, is an organic part of being talented.

They wanted to be different, but there was no one to show them how.

People are not uniform, Emaline. There is no such thing as any other girl.

I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

You go Picasso!

If truth was a crayon and I had to name it, I would call it dinosaur skin.

Genius must be the recovery of the powers of childhood by an act of the creative

If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them.

Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you're dealing with writers and artists