Quotes About Originality

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you can make it work, rather than sticking to just one style too strictly.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

A good title is a work of a genius!