Quotes About Originality

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful.

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

I do not walk like a duck.

You could dress it up with a sequined headband," Magnus suggested, offering his boyfriend something blue and sparkly. "Just a thought." "Resist the urge, Alec." Simon was sitting on the edge of a low wall with Maia beside him, though she appeared to be deep in conversation with Aline. "You'll look like Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu." "There are worse things," Magnus observed.

I prefer to think that I'm liar in a way that's uniquely my own." (Jace)

It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique.

Did you like it?" he said. "I could have given you...jewelry, but I wanted it to be something that was wholly yours. That no one else would hear or own. And I am not good with words, so I wrote how I felt about you in music." He paused. "Did you like it?

Songwriting cannot be taught; it is a God-given gift from the womb.

Come with me," Reyn said. "I want to show you something." Frankly, I had expected something more original. "Really?" I asked, "That's it? That's what you came up with?

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

Creativity took precedence over accepted beliefs, and going out on a limb seemed invariably more attractive than security.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

We're all just running around being exactly what we are.

Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry? Have they?

You and I, we're no good at telling a story straight. It won't come off right. Like a dog reciting a sonnet. Impressive, but how much better to let him howl?

What I do is me, for that I came.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree. (from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')

All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

All things counter, original, spare, strange...

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Certi tesori esistono soltanto per chi batte per primo una strada nuova.