Quotes About Originality

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

Generally I don't like traveling around saying the exact same thing. I don't think that's a very good thing to do with your life.

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Following fashion trends, however ridiculous or uncomfortable.

We are all different, and should do what we can do te remain so.

I personally do not think that I have ever done, in my working life, anything vulgar. I know I've done provocative things.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

You don't need to be famous to live a life as an artist.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you're an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?

It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

Don't ... depend on current fashion or ... popular opinion.

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable