Quotes About Originality

Unknowing imitation is almost a recipe for bad design. If you don't know where your ideas are coming from, you're probably imitating an imitator.

It takes confidence to throw work away. You have to be able to think, there's more where that came from.

Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that's unthinkable. Natural

Wildness is not found but revealed.

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction; he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions but also of entire world views, he is the inventor of entire forms of life.

I don't tweet or blog or order pizza with arugula on top. You won't find my mug on Facebook or Instagram. I don't have a life coach, an aroma therapist, or a manicurist, and I sure as hell don't do Pilates.

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

The speeches! They were filled with borrowed things--borrowed over and over again until the words were nothing more than a series of clichés.

If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could…

Everyone is indeed crazy but the craziest are those who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

Instead of accepting ourselves as we are, we try to imitate what we see around us.

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

Be creative. Remember that we only learnt how to fly when we stopped imitating birds.

This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.

Express yourself through your art - whether it's your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

Everything I do is completely original-I made it up when I was a kid.