Quotes About Originality

Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.

You can be an incredible player, but when you get onstage, you've gotta be yourself, and you've gotta bring it, as we say, and that just means give 120 percent.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

When I started stand-up, the people I admired most were the people who were the most themselves onstage.

As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4.

Everybody's opening up their own lane and it just makes you feel O.K. to showcase what you've got.

A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

The only artists I have ever known, who are personally delightful, are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfect uninteresting in what they are.

The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies. The justification of a character in a novel is not that other persons are what they are, but that the author is what he is. Otherwise the novel is not a work of art.

The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

All imitation in morals and in life is wrong.  Through the streets of Jerusalem at the present day crawls one who is mad and carries a wooden cross on his shoulders.  He is a symbol of the lives that are marred by imitation. 

Wer nicht auf seine Weise denkt, denkt überhaupt nicht.