Quotes About Originality

Copying is out of the question; only fools and impostors copy. No, the thing is to produce something as good, if possible, out of your own resources. And so begins the strange torture of the blank sheet of paper, where you must open a window that is not the one I spotted just now but one equally insistent in its truthfulness.

What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but imitated? - never.

Uno puede releer un libro, pero cuando un pulóver está terminado no se puede repetirlo sin escándalo.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

If there was one thing I learned from Lydia and the rest of the Twisted Sisters, it was that artists do not cower. They live to make statements

Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel

Se le ocurrió que si la escritura no se hacía de esa manera, en un estado de embriaguez física o espiritual, entonces no valía la pena de ser ejecutada (y la palabra misma le hizo sonreír). Sabía que lo que estaba haciendo jamás podría llegar a ser considerado como una novela por un editor o por un agente literario.

Besides, if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, plagiarism is practically a declaration of love.

Er war so anders als alle anderen und dachte Gedanken, die sonst keiner dachte.

There is only one You. Dare to be yourself. Be authentic to you, and you will find your destiny. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts.

But if all my paintings were imitations of the images in my brain, then the images in my brain had always been only echoes of this. We were in Feyland at last. - Breena Malloy from Bitter Frost by Kailin Gow.

You're you. Uniquely, wonderfully you.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Don't be plain. You were born beautiful and unique. Dress beautifully and uniquely you! - KailinGow.com Blog

To be innovative, you have to be different. - Kailin Gow, STEM Stage Speech

Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique.

Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality.

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.

There is a clearing for new creative thought in choreography. I don't feel intimidated; there is a lot I can do that is new or innovative or different.

It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you created based on what I created.'

Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.