Quotes About Originality

I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

Geniuses are not always pleasant people.

All of them thought Georgia was weird. Then and now, it takes nerve to be weird - and I mean genuinely out of step with everyone else, not hipster-weird, where you affect the weirdness embraced by everyone else at the coffee shop.

He's the ultimate plagiarist, copying what others do if it proves successful and putting his own spin on it, which really pisses me off, because it`s far more difficult to come up with the original idea than steal someone else`s and spruce it up a bit.

I don't like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness.

The most truly eccentric dresser in this country is the Queen, who pays no attention whatsoever to fashion

Especially in a world that doesn't need homemade anything.That's when we need homemade everything.

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

The two most dangerous words in the English language are 'like' and 'as.' If you do not have something interesting to say after you write down those two words, cross them out, because you've entered into the country of cliché. Make sure you have something to say that is new or fresh or in a different way; otherwise, leave them alone.

There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

Be yourself, it's a tough act to follow.

Rien n'est plus monotone que les illusions d'originalité chez des hommes à qui l'on a inculqué, dès l'enfance, le préjugé du « génie créateur »

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

Highly creative people don't necessarily excel in raw brainpower. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

The alternative to appropriation is a world in which artists only reference their own cultures.

There is no purity in art. The process of how you arrive at something doesn't matter at all.

I don't think that every last bit of the programming has to be original. You have this purity thing, but seriously, no one will care. There is no purity in art. The process of how you arrive at something doesn't matter at all. The game is going to be completely original because we made it. If you have access to a tool that will help, there is no reason not to use that tool.

I am repulsed by ghostwritten novels by reality television stars, celebrity picture books, sports memoirs, movie tie-in editions, novelty items, and—I imagine this goes without saying—vampires.

There is no purity in art.

In a world of planar surfaces, someone became 3D