Quotes About Originality

If it is true that a man marries, for preference, his opposite (the "law of life"), that is because we have an instinctive horror of being tied to someone who displays the same defects and idiosyncrasies as ourselves. The reason is obviously that defects and idiosyncrasies, discovered in someone near to us, rob us of the illusion-which we formerly fostered-that in ourselves they would be eccentricities, excusable because of their originality.

an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Art is not a sack race.

Al llevarme a casa, Harry me dijo —¿cómo podía no saberlo?—que Jackson Pollock se había rebanado la punta de su dedo meñique a los siete años. ¡Siete! Jesucristo. Ni siquiera mi dolor era original

Genius is of no country.

genius is independent of situation

Satan plagiarized by dictator, and he does not even have copyright! (Satan plagié par dictateur, - Et il n'a même pas de droits d'auteur!)

Satan plagiarized by dictator, and he doesn't even have copyright! (Satan plagié par dictateur, - Et il n'a même pas de droits d'auteur!)

We do not counterfeit his own signature, but his nature. (On ne contrefait sa propre - Signature, mais sa nature.)

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Eccentricities of genius.

I am, sir,' said Mr Tigg, striking himself upon the breast, 'a premium tulip, of a very different growth and cultivation from the cabbage Slyme, sir.

conventional phrases are a sort of fireworks, easily let off, and liable to take a great variety of shapes and colours not at all suggested by their original form.

this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more

messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which,

We like to think we're pretty special, and, OK, in some respects maybe we are. And we like to think that we design for ourselves. And we do, we really do. But in the important ways we are really very much like a lot of other people. And if you are going to design for yourself, then you have to make sure you design deeply for yourself, because otherwise you are just designing for your eccentricities and that can never be satisfying to anyone else.

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE

I'm not a joke machine. You can't just feed crap in and get funny out.

No matter who you are, some scholar can show you the great idea you had was had by someone before you.

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.