Quotes About Originality

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

I love the lambs, not the sheep.

Be yourself and the right people will love you.

Still more beautiful were the intrigues of young Michelangelo. One day while still apprenticed to the Florentine painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, he was lent an old master drawing of a head to copy. He rendered it so precisely that, in the words of his first biographer, Ascanio Condivi, "when he returned the copy to the owner in place of the original, at first the owner did not detect the deception, but discovered it only when the boy was telling a friend of his and laughing about it.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

I think the fact that I did not have the masters, that I don't have any musical heroes…my music is pretty original. Nearly anyone you talk to in my generation had a hero that they studied and analyzed and strove to be like. They did air guitar in front of the mirror. So it was less "muse" than "ick." Music comes from the muse, not from other musicians.

group identity can be fractionated right down to the level of the individual. That sentence should be written in capital letters. Every person is unique—and not just in a trivial manner: importantly, significantly, meaningfully unique.

And besides, I might be white, but I'm most definitely not vanilla.

Genius is a thing that happens, not a kind of person.

Let each one build their own cathedral. Why live from alien and ancient works of art?

Every writer creates his own precursors.

When, one day, Durtal reproached him for concealing his productions, he replied with a certain melancholy, "No, I caught myself in time to choke down a base instinct, the desire of resaying what has been said. I could have plagiarized Flaubert as well as, if not better than, the poll parrots who are doing it, but I decided not to. I would rather phrase abstruse medicaments of rare application; perhaps it is not very necessary, but at least it isn't cheap.

A diferencia del poeta moderno, no vive aquejado por el ansia de originalidad. Sabe que su canto no es suyo sólo. La conciencia étnica, forjadora del mito, ha cumplido antes que él naciera, el trabajo principal; ha creado los objetos bellos. Su papel queda reducido a la escrupulosidad de un artífice.

El mediocre aspira a. confundirse en los que le rodean; el original tiende a diferenciarse de ellos.

Las rutinas defendidas hoy por los mediocres son simples glosas colectivas de ideales, concebidos ayer por hombres originales.

Su característica es imitar a cuantos le rodean: pensar con cabeza ajena y ser incapaz de formarse ideales propios.

Usually I say I have no imagination.

writers who cast about for something new will scarcely ever be great, for great things could not have escaped the attention of earlier observers.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even -- if you will -- eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Shakespeare used the word 'flush' to indicate plenty of money. Well, just remember there was only one Shakespeare , and he was the only one that had a right to use that word in that sense . You'll never be a Shakespeare , there will never be such another— Nature exhausted herself in producing him.

Not everyone strives to be fashionable. I don't, and I believe I succeed.

The best way to ensure that your writing is as good as you can make it is simply to consult your imagination and judgment as you write and take note of whether you are using an expression that has found its way into the stream simply because it's always there, swirling lifelessly in an eddy, where it was recently deposited by some other writer you have read.