Quotes About Originality

For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

Anything you do will be an abuse of somebody else's aesthetics. I think you're born an artist or not. I couldn't have learned it. And I hope I never do because knowing more only encourages your limitations.

I didn't have to be somebody I wasn't coming into the league. I had a great foundation from my family.

Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

When you come into a pre-existing situation, you gotta have your own thing going. You gotta be really strong about it, and you gotta look at the older material in an aggressive way - 'I'm gonna make this mine somehow.' You need to put your imprint on the situation that you're in.

I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator.

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

I am not a fake. I am natural. I am just being Caster. I don't want to be someone I don't want to be. I don't want to be someone people want me to be. I just want to be me. I was born like this. I don't want any changes.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.

I'd love to just continue making original films from scratch, but it doesn't mean I won't try my hand at something else in the meantime.

Let's quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we've never really been.

'Yeezus, ' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.

Love yourself, love your uniqueness. You are the only person can be true to yourself.

Her love was old but her methods were original.

If you are not yourself, you have nothing to offer the world but a cheap imitation of someone else.