Quotes About Originality

We aren't cool and never will be.

It's about being genuine with it and being yourself—just bringing out the creativeness, not doing the same thing everybody else is doing, regardless of whether it don't break through or pop off immediately.

If there's something to steal, I steal it! — PICASSO

Prepare, take advice, read the books, then do it your way.

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

Being boring is a sin. It doesn't matter if you mess up; at least you're trying something different

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

A writer who can't use his firsthand experience must turn to secondhand experience, which can lead to thirdhand clichés.

Worrying about originality is like worrying about the best place to hang your wall phone.

I wore all black because I myself am a pop of color.

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

I wanted to say, with as much sarcasm as I could put into my voice, "Sir, your poem is both original and interesting, but the part that is interesting is not original, and the part that is original is not interesting." But all I said was, "Not bad, you need to work on it some more.

Solo empezamos a ser imitables ahí donde dejamos de ser nosotros mismos. Quiero decir que solo de puede imitar de nuestros gestos aquello que tienen de mecánicamente uniforme y, por eso mismo, de extraño a nuestra viva personalidad. Imitar a alguien es extraer la parte de automatismo que este ha dejado introducirse en su persona.

qualunque cosa noi facciamo, kertész l'ha fatto prima.

las manos son aún más bellas cuando no imitan nada.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Another word for creativity is courage.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naïveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

Creativity takes courage

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.