Quotes About Originality

True success will come when you have the courage to be yourself.

On 'Platinum Flame,' I engineered the beats myself, so I produced and engineered them. So this is getting even truer to myself, how I truly feel.

As a creative, you have to be your truest form. You can't worry about fitting into whatever boxes people want to put you in.

A person who is truly authentic doesn't need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him - or herself.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

I don't want to be like Donald Trump or anything like it... I'm different than some people.

There is only one Donald Trump, but people make comparisons because I'm blunt.

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.

Generally, I like people's trunk projects, the things they were working on before anyone knew who they were. I think when people run out of their trunk items and they start doing stuff just to do a film next year, the quality goes down, the interest goes down. Maybe it feels commercial or something.

I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're doing. They tend to be 26 years old and highflying. They often have a very childlike mind, with some naivete.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay claim to some extraordinary act of originality, truth is I'm only taking advantage of capabilities inherent in everyone.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.

To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.