Quotes About Originality

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

The great thing about letting people be true to themselves is they often do very good things indeed.

I'm proud of my independence. And certainly from a business perspective, that's always been a main agenda for me - to make my own position, don't try and be like somebody else, because there already is that somebody else.

I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

I associate creativity with independent music.

Independent film is film that has thought in it. There's no independent thought in studio films. It's collective thought.

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

Other shows have been aping 'Indian Idol.'

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

He (Tomaz Humar) doesn't conform to existing standards; he creates them.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

Never follow the crowd.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago

What gets lost in bestowing of classical status on a work, is the book's original freshness, the element of surprise…of newness, of productive stimulus that is the hallmark of such works...the passionate quality of a great masterpiece.

The most important thing is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the thinking of great men.

Who're you supposed to be, Creflo Dollar's Mini-Me?

You can't be me. I'm already taken. You can be yourself, though." "But you've got swag." "Yes, I do, because I'm from Detroit, and it's in the water.

One thing that I tell people is ... if you're going to do anything new or innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood. If you cannot afford to be misunderstood, then for goodness' sake, don't do anything new or innovative.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves.