Quotes About Originality

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All these strangers have more money than you do All the good riffs have been taken And everyone is so scared Murder is commonplace I don't even flinch at the gunshots outside my window I feel lonely without them

Zappa warned you of the threat of mediocrity in music.

The place where most people aren't is where the real thing is.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Why do you need to be like anyone? You're good as you are,

Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks.

Sviazhsky was one of those people, always a source of wonder to Levin, whose convictions, very logical though never original, go one way by themselves, while their life, exceedingly definite and firm in its direction, goes its way quite apart and almost always in direct contradiction to their convictions.

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

what is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. if Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

And some women, Breavman thought, women like Shell, create [beauty] as they go along, changing not so much their faces as the air around them. They break down old rules of light and cannot be interpreted nor compared. They make every room original.

To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied,

a good way to make some cash without worrying about boring things like originality or operating capital.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

Isn't it enough that the world is full of ugly human beings without making copies of them?

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.