Quotes About Originality

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it

O s?-mi fac? pl?cere s?-mi imaginez o pictur? f?cut? de un maestru,chiar dac? mintea mea creeaz? doar o imita?ie palid?.

Yes, Mary Anning, you are different from all the rocks on the beach.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

Apple isn't the world's greatest techno-innovator. Nowhere near it, in fact. Rather, it excels, in contrast, at rehashing other people's ideas.

Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.

Don't be the best. Be the only.

When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can't be copied? Trust, for instance.

In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.

When God created you, he broke the mold. Why break his heart by being a copy of someone else?

She had tried for months now to think of her own performance, some unique revelation of the absurdity of life, but she had no capacity for new ideas. She could see an existing artwork and understand why it was or was not successful. But she could not take that knowledge and arrange it into something wholly original, or even a reinterpretation of that existing piece. She was, as Hobart had explained to her, as kindly as possible, simply a critic.

Keep it weird. They'll get it later.

I've always felt uncomfortable giving people what they want or expect.

Eu nunca quis ser qualquer coisa, exceto quem eu era.

Neil Young once said that it's more about having an authentic voice than a good voice, though of course Neil has a great voice.

My identity was straightforward: I had made art since I was five years old, and aside from dance, art was the only thing that interested me. If that didn't fit into the conventions of the day, who cared?

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.

Pete, it doesn't matter how you move as long as you are being you.

If you want to be cool, just be you.

Plagiarism is a crime of its first known definition, now lost and stolen.

You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

Who makes up or invents proverbs? They are so often a crockful of never-mind-what. They pile up platitude upon platitude which the officious and unctuous mouth in and out of season and are taken to be the distillates of wisdom.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

First of all, I'm not narcissistic." When she opened her lips to argue, he said, "I know Narkissos of Thespiae -- while we might share traits, I came first, so he's Lothairistic, not the other way around.