Quotes About Originality

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

Everybody is talented, original, and has something important to say.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.

Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.