Quotes About Originality

A bromide about the creative process is that an artist's first idea is usually the best one.

I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.

you're a whole new kind of fish.

We are utterly convinced that all our notions spring full blown, as if by magic, from our own unique selves. At

Yours is much worse than Eastern! You've slapped together travel notes, moralistic ramblings, feelings, notes, jottings, untheoretical discussions, unfable-like fables, copied out some folk songs, added some legend-like nonsense of your own invention, and are calling it fiction!

Successful entrepreneurs take who they are and what they already know and create surprising combinations.

a capacity for innovation is the hallmark of our species. Each of us was born to create—whether it's landscaping a garden, writing a blog, composing a photograph, inventing a recipe, developing an app, or starting a business.

The fault lies not with any particular manager, but with a management regime that empowers the few at the expense of the many, that prizes conformance over originality, that wedges human beings into narrow roles, robs them of agency, and treats them as mere resources.

A Great Answer is essentially a new answer. It

Someone once said that if you steal from one writer, it's called plagiarism, but if you steal from several, it's called research. So steal from everybody, but steal only a sentence or a phrase at a time. If you use much more than that, you must get permission and then give credit.

Creativty is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

There is no original truth, only original error.

When I first discovered the moon, he said, I gave it a different name. But everyone kept calling it the moon. The real name never caught on.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Dude, I've known people who pretend to be crazy, but you, my friend, are the real deal.

I dress the way I want. I don`t pretend to be someone I`m not.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

For an instructed eye loves to see where the brush has dipped twice in lustrous colour, has lain insistingly along a favorite outline, dwelt lovingly in a grand shadow--for these "too muches" for the everybody's picture, are so many helps to the making out the real painter's picture as he had it in his brain.

But, really, why does anyone create? You feel a...a restlessness inside, a need to make something new, something no one has ever seen before. You want to add to the beauty and the richness of the world with a gift, an offering that is uniquely yours. It's an act of selfishness and generosity, all rolled into one.

I have established a very good rule, which I pass on to you: Never do anything just because other people do it.

Advice for writers: if you're a writer, a real writer, a really, really real writer, like, REALLY a writer, you should not write a sentence like this one.