Quotes About Originality

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time

Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

How many of you are creative? I don't know, but for me, when you make a bunch of things over time and then you keep them... you forget. I look through my sketchbooks and I'm an audience for myself.

Creativity has to do with what came before you immediately, not what came before you a long time ago.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.