Quotes About Originality

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.

Masterful work always comes from putting a higher importance on originality over marketability.

Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

Owning things of value is secondary to creating things of value where none once existed.

That's an answer in the same way that ketchup can be hair gel.

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

Standing out like a punk guitarist in a mariachi band.

True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation.

Dadas dos obras de majestuosidad artística, sopesadas por igual, daremos más valor a quien la hizo primero. No importa lo que crees. Importa que crees antes que nadie.

Don't dream the small dreams of other men.

Look close at a given person, and you'd see their uniqueness—see that they didn't quite match whatever broad category you'd first put them in.

Es el intelecto del genio lo que reverenciamos? [...] Dadas dos obras de majestuosidad artística, sopesadas por igual, daremos más valor a quien la hizo primero. No importa lo que crees. Importa que lo crees antes que nadie. No es la belleza lo que admiramos, ni la fuerza del intelecto, ni la inventiva, ni la estética, ni la capacidad misma. El mayor talento que creemos que puede tener un hombre debe ser la novedad.

Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.

But we don't. Given two works of artistic majesty, otherwise weighted equally, we will give greater acclaim to the one who did it first. It doesn't matter what you create. It matters what you create before anyone else.

If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity

Letting go of comparison is not a to-do list item. For most of us, it's something that requires constant awareness. It's so easy to take our eyes off our path to check out what others are doing and if they're ahead or behind us. Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared. And, without comparison, concepts like ahead or behind or best or worst lose their meaning.

There are only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared. And, without comparison, concepts like ahead or behind or worst lose their meaning.

I'm not very creative" doesn't work. There's no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared. And, without comparison, concepts like ahead or behind or best or worst lose their meaning.