Quotes About Originality

Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

Just be true to you. What works for me might not work for someone else and what works for someone else might not work for me.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.