Quotes About Originality

I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.

I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.

I wear high water pants, always, so you can see my socks - I always wear white socks.

The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000 copies, and we sold them all.

Somebody sold millions of record before. I want to do something that hasn't been done.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

As I always say, I don't want to limit myself to being an ingredient in any dish. I want to be the sole flavoring agent, without which making the dish is impossible.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity.

When I was hanging out with Joey Clements in Chicago, I made it a point not to try to emulate him. I wanted basically to create my own character. I didn't want him to think I was hanging out with him solely to use him as research.

Some filmmakers set out to re-create the theater experience they got on Broadway. They kept everything the same. They shot the original casts. We reinvent the whole thing, look at it solely as a movie. We pretend that nobody saw 'Chicago' or 'Hairspray.'

Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

If everybody wanted to follow the left side of the pallet like I had on 'Tusk,' there would have been no need for me to do solo work.

I love Lauryn Hill when she first came out with her solo project because it felt like she just knew what she was doing.

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

Extraordinary situations require an out-of-box thinking. Conventionalists cannot find such solutions.

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.