Quotes About Originality

To him, the world had no order of succession, no causation, no precedent. Everything he saw was new-minted, and thus every day was a parade of wonders.

Nothing can compensate for a lack of authenticity.

The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God—not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice. —A. W. Tozer3

Creativity consists of coming up with many ideas, not just that one great idea.

Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work...Give that to the world, rather than selling something to the world. Don't allow yourself to be tricked into thinking that the way things are is the way the world must work and that in the end selling is what everyone must do. Try not to.

Now picture the suspenders attached to a pair of sweatpants. This vision is what first led me to coin the term "camel balls.

Why anyone needed to hold her breath above water was beyond me, but when I make things up, I rarely have a filter.

Your only real job in giving a talk is to have something valuable to say and to say it authentically in your own unique way.

'Just What I Am' took me all of 10 minutes to make. 'Immortal' maybe took 30 minutes. It's not hard for me. 'Indicud' is almost what my first album should have sounded like, had I really been able to channel all of the ideas I had into music.

You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.

I like to create something that's unique and kind of true to myself and authentic and everything. I don't really like to mirror myself after different artists.

Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

I find it very hard not to be myself and maybe that does attract attention, but I'd be miserable if I wasn't.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.

It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.

I love A Day to Remember. They really had that style down of doing heavy songs mixed with pop songs when nobody was doing that style of music.

I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.