Quotes About Originality

You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

The greatest records in the world were made without going to Auto-tune or Pro Tools, or having some click track. If they could do it, why can't we? Something's been lost in music. It's all been over-produced, squashed down, totally compressed.

I just gotta keep doing what I'm doing, and just continuing to grow and progress as an artist. People who are saying that about Lil B need to be innovative and not be tools.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

I think sometimes producers forget that people like interesting things. It doesn't always have to be 'Big Brother' or toil and torment.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

I want to be the Tory Burch of India - never once moving from my aesthetic, but offering a story and putting a print on whatever I can.

I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

It's been really gratifying to see that so many people love Total Skull! I really make things that I love, so it's awesome to see other people love it, too.

Oneohtrix Point Never is total freedom to do what I think is right.

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.

I'm totally myself.

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

My first movie was totally improvised.

Picasso said "good artists copy but great artists steal.

When you start viewing creativity as a process of combination, and imagination as the ability to connect, stretch, and merge things in new ways, creative brilliance becomes less mystifying. A creative genius is just better at connecting the dots than others are.

creativity is "just connecting things.