Quotes About Originality

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

I want to be a living work of art.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

My work is about seeing - seeing things like they haven't been seen before.

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could get a lot more work on TV playing clean but it's never interesting.

Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.