Quotes About Originality

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Be curious. Be daring. Be different. Be yourself. And, if that doesn't work, be moi!

When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.

Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

The goal of the work is always for it to come across as original material, as transformative material.

I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.

My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

It's important to stand up for your work - otherwise somebody else will step in and say they did it.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

Whether that's in communications or marketing or strategy, you need people to come in with a fresh perspective.

You build your own strategy. You don't define it by what another competitor is doing.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.