Quotes About Originality

I do not care if nobody resembles me.

I want something that is nothing like the past.

Man invents nothing God did not create first.

Forget what the culture says.

Nothing is) really as good as a meal made 'from scratch' or a picture created with your own hands.

People point to a highly original painter or sculptor and say, "He isn't following rules. He's doing something entirely original, something that has never been done before, something for which there are no rules." But they fail to see

Think and plan independently of traditional methods. Know that there is always an answer and a solution to every problem.

You must strive to find your own voice, boys, and the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.

Ma Gigi era doppiamente diverso: perché portava avanti certe idee in un ambiente che ne ha poche e poco ardite, cioè nell'ambiente dello sport; e perché le portava avanti con originalità, con profonda convinzione.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "One single idea may have greater weight than the labor of all the men, animals and engines for a century.

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

Lo que tiene que hacer usted es empezar a evitar que los demás le escriban el diálogo. Use la cabeza que Dios le ha plantado sobre las cervicales y hágase usted mismo el libreto.

Routine is the housekeeper of inspiration.

We should not forego innovation, but reject novelty as the sole aim.

If you won't be you...who will?

Stephen was shaped like a tire iron, all his bones a little too long:

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

It's normal to dream about anything at all. It's not normal to dream someone else's dreams. -Arthur Mentis

But if there isn't a right way to do things you have to invent one.

They say a story loses something with each telling. If that is the case, this story has lost nothing, for it's the first time it's been told.

And that's what the problem was – Kitty had finally nailed it. In the six months of Etcetera stories that Kitty had pored over, she now realised she hadn't written a single article that had been an idea of her own. Each story had been proposed by Pete or Cheryl or by somebody else who had enough on their own plate and was unable to write it. She hadn't noticed it happening because she hadn't minded.

Programming is full of odd ideas. Using shorter, less descriptive names often produces code that's more readable overall. The most powerful languages usually have far fewer concepts than the lesser ones. And failing and copying may be the best way to produce successful, original work. - Patrick Collison is a student at MIT.

An artist is a person first.

Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.