Quotes About Originality

Implicit in this is the conviction that the poem or piece of fiction is a made-thing. It is neither received from outside or erupts out of the artist's peculiar sensitivity and superiority.

Flaubert said — I assume about the balance between repression and freedom — "Be regular and orderly in your daily life, so you can be violent and original in your work.

Poets who remain poets have, presumably, worked through the terrors of influence, and are willing to acknowledge their debts by using them in order to go their own way. They've learned what Thomas Mann knew: "A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Genius has as many components as the mind itself.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

I don't believe that there's anything new under the sun. Oh, sometimes the glitter they sprinkle over the top of a thing changes, but that's all. What's been tried once had been tried once before...and before...and before.

He's got all sorts of strange ideas to catch up on.

Think of those fingers as abilities. A creative person may write, paint, sculpt, or think up math formulae; he or she might dance or sing or play a musical instrument. Those are the fingers, but creativity is the hand that gives them life. & just as all hands are basically the same - form follows function - all creative people are the same once you get down to the place where the fingers join.

Vision defect leads to Copycat

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

Forget being like someone else.You are not a copy.You are a one of a kind MASTERPIECE.Realize this and become who you are.Your like will never come this way again.Only you can be you!

Authenticity is the seed of your identity and you can't go wrong with it in life.

Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism

dont look at someone and wish to be them because you dont know if someone else is looking at you and wishing to be you

Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you

You have two choices in life...Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else...Choice two is to be yourself and be a difference-maker.

Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.

The most beautiful word in the dictionary is IMAGINATION.

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.