Quotes About Originality

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

I want to be firm that the idea of the traditional itself is highly constructed and highly ideological. This version is one among many. There is no original, only endless multiple trails that point into the past. We can never grasp that past. These stories are always about the present.

A clever trick does not a concept make.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.

Be authentic. Don't try to be someone you aren't. You'll hate yourself for it & the effort to maintain the facade will exhaust you. BE REAL! Many won't like the real you but that's better than having people adore the person that isn't you at all

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Tenemos algo que los robots no tienen, al menos por el momento. Imaginación.

The perfect human being is uninteresting. — Joseph Campbell

Amateur and expert, master and novice, what are these words to Creativity? It loves them all.

There are no rules to creativity.

Louise? Oh, you would remember. She doesn't look like anyone else. Her hair is black like Myra's, but perfectly straight like an Oriental's, and she wears it in a Buster Brown.

nothing is really important but being oneself

Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he'd asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like 'Clocks don't melt!' But, lucky for us, Salvador didn't care what anyone else thought. You use what moves you.

Art isn't about where it ends up. It's about the creation.

When you think about it, everything has been said before, in one way or another. It's only our experience of it that makes it new.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

My name is Lake Suck and this is my manifesto. I swear to be myself. To think for myself. I will not be led by social conventions. I will make my own way through the world. I will live on my own terms without conforming to society's expectations of who they think I should be, I will be the visible minority. By being myself, I will help to save the world. I swear to always look, listen, learn, think, ask, act, and speak for myself.

she did not know how to be anything else.

Different has always been a brand on his forehead, blazoned there between the eyes. It has tinted his entire life, this word; it has left its smudgy fingerprints on everything.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.