Quotes About Originality

It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.

Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else's version of what they think you should be.

I am an out of the box thinker, simply because I am claustrophobic.