Quotes About Originality

To become more fascinating, you don't have to change who you are. You have to become more of who you are.

Here's your choice: Spend a lot of time and money in pursuit of better. Or find what makes you different, and then do it on purpose.

Instead of trying to outdo your competition, focus on what makes you different. The goal is to find where you and your product diverge from standard expectations.

Part of the artist's job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional.

If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Oslové by cht?li, abych dodržoval rady, které vyhlašuji pro ostatní. To je nemožné, já jsem totiž zcela odlišný.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before. ROGER EBERT

It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen.

Everyone scoffs at a pioneer. Did you ever stop to consider the person who first discovered milk? It took a lot of nerve to be the first man to pull on a cow's nipple and drink whatever came out. You can bet his friends never let him live that down. And yet, a million years later, nobody thinks anything of drinking cow juice.

Art isn't a hawk making lazy circles in the sky. Beauty doesn't equal art, and it can't just be the world in a package. It's got to take the world and mess it up some. Add the artifice as a lens, right?

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognised for some time.

It is bad enough to see one's own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people's rubbish fathered upon oneself.

Let's have some new clich

Let's have some new cliches.

Let's have some new clichés.

No man was ever great by imitation.

My congratulations to you, sir. 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.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

You do not need an identity to become yourself; you need an identity to become -like- someone else.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

Do not compare yourself to other people, for you are a unique and wonderful creation. Make your own beautiful mark in life.