Quotes About Originality

The stolen ideas, words, and quotes do not make you a unique author. You are only a thief of the literature, and pseudo-intellectual.

Don't be so modest. Having a unique name is best...sticks in you head! That's one trick to doing business.

If there is something I will always carry in my heart it is this earnest unwillingness to be part of the bunch

springs from their own imaginations.

When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent -- the power to do the right thing the first time.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

It was the flexibility, the originality, and the independence of thought—combined, of course, with our vast resources—that made American business grow so rapidly. If the seeds of growth are made sterile, if men become passive followers instead of developing qualities of leadership—and courage—we may find someday that our way of life has been superseded.

get out of your mind that you can be a woman like me, all you'd succeed in being is what a woman is according to you men. You can copy me, make a portrait as precise as an artist, but my shit will always remain mine, and yours will be yours.

Talent is insufficient: if it's not cultivated, it ends up, in the best cases, inventing the wheel, only to discover that this has been done already.

Move on another plane in the name of one's own difference.

In fact I had no such interest, but I knew it was wrong to do things just because other people did. Other people couldn't be the reason why you did anything.

I get that you despise convention, but you shouldn't let it get to the point that you're incapable of saying, 'Fine, thanks,' just because it isn't an original, brilliant utterance. You can't be unconventional in every aspect of life. People will get the wrong idea.

To associate art with the artist is to forfeit art, because at this moment we are pushed into the arena of self-expression, and can be recognized only by what differentiates us from others.

If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not art—and only life is rich enough to simulate originality.

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

Geniuses are their own saviors.

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

She was a rule follower but not a crowd follower.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.