Quotes About Originality

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

I didn't invent hot water. But when I approach menswear, I do it in a very honest way. And my menswear and womenswear are very similar, in the sense that I put men in leggings and lace shirts.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

The man who follows the crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

No man can prophesy with another's parable.

A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.