Quotes About Originality

Be creative, have a good time, and be yourself.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

I live in my own place. I never copied anybody, not even half. And at any master who lacks the grace to laugh at himself, I laugh.

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;

My genius is in my nostrils.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

He is called a free spirit who thinks differently from what, on the basis of his origin, environment, his class and profession, or on the basis of the dominant views of the age, would have been expected of him

I don't want to be mistaken for anyone?so I mustn't mistake myself.

If the poet is not a real genius, I do not know what a genius is.

A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as a tree as it ought to be.

The creator seeks companions, not corpses or herds or believers. The creator seeks fellow-creators, those who inscribe new values on new tables. The

Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses — and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh — those who grave new values on new tables.

The genius, in work and deed, is necessarily a squanderer: he squanders himself. That is his greatness! … He flows out, he overflows, he uses himself up, he does not spare himself—and this is a calamitous involuntary fatality, no less than a river's flooding the land.

Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica.

I think the best voices, the most creative voices, and the best content always wins.

I am able to take a wire line and go into the air and define the air without stealing from anyone. A line can enclose and define space while letting the air remain air.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

It's not wise to just blindly copy what others are doing.

Tierra Whack is very wise.

I'm not a Pat Benatar clone. I wish people would forget about that comparison.

The monsters I thought about are those that don't fit in - those who think differently from the majority, the people of exception, outsiders. I wish that society would place more importance and value on these kinds of monsters.