Quotes About Originality

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

Esto, esto es lo que trataba de decir: que cuando algo es nuevo, difícil y brillante, es mucho mejor que si solo es seguro, pues lo seguro, las cosas seguras son precisamente las que la gente ha estado haciendo tanto tiempo, que sus bordes están ya gastados y no hay nada ya en ellas que permita decir a un hombre: «Esto no se había hecho antes y no puede ser hecho otra vez».

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people...

Nevertheless, they boarded The Purdue Victory and sailed out of Boston harbor, provided for against all inclemencies but these they were leaving behind, and those disasters of such scope and fortuitous originality which Christian courts of law and insurance companies, humbly arguing ad hominem, define as acts of God.

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people, and protect themselves from talented people . . .

I had no idea that no one else would do it.

I'm allergic to Best Ofs, canon of all sorts, rankings, comparison. I love the bottomless Borgesian library.

You are the artiste of the slightly funny deal.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.

The people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants.

His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

You want to invent new ideas, not new rules.

But isn't the use of a template or a checklist confining? Surely we're not arguing that a "color by numbers" approach will yield more creative work than a blank-canvas approach? Actually, yes, that's exactly what we're saying.

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

It's not Art. And Art is not Design.

In the world of innovation, wacky wins; logical loses.

Let your co-creation partnership run free in the wild meadow of originality; it will be fenced in the stable of practicality soon enough.

the more you stick to what is uniquely yours and the more authentic you are in what you do, the more interesting it is to others and the more marketable it is.

With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

Just be who you are, Luigi. Everybody else is already taken.