Quotes About Originality

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.

If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

We shouldn't be chasing other movies, but stay true to the tone of Man of Steel.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'