Quotes About Originality

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

The thing that makes you different from everyone else--that's your superpower

I've always believed that if you know what you're going to do, you won't do it. Your creativity starts with your curiosity.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Le génie est un péché contre la masse.

It doesn't matter how badly you paint as long as you don't paint badly like other people

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

It was not even necessary for people to know how to sing to be considered rock musicians. Bob Dylan had no clue, but that did not stop him from becoming one of the greatest artists ever.

Interestingly, to be considered creative, it is not enough that an idea is new. To say that 4 + 4 = 35,372 is definitely original, but it hardly qualifies as creative.

A person with low associative barriers, on the other hand, may think to connect ideas or concepts that have very little basis in past experience, or that cannot easily be traced logically. Therefore, such ideas are often met with resistance and sentiments such as, "If this is such a good idea, someone else would have thought of it." But that is precisely what someone else would not have done, because the connection between the two concepts is not obvious.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Hush, little bright line, don't you cry You'll be a clich

You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.

The way you would draw a tree is different from the way anyone else would draw a tree—and that's the way it's supposed to be!

Only that which cannot be expressed otherwise is worth expressing in music.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.