Quotes About Originality

I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.

Just make the comics you want to see, and people will notice.

I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women's work... I've noticed that it just happens a lot.

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.

I am against the notion of style in itself.

How do we innovate and make things that challenge the notion of being stuck in a place of just being popular?

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.

In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything.

If you can make something that looks new - novelty is exciting.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

The shows being made nowadays are very similar, very regressive. We are talking about the type of '60s, '70s kind of films, and similar stories are being shown on TV today. Only rehashed and glossy. It does not interest me.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there's really nowhere to hide.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design.

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.