Quotes About Originality

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

My work has been always presented to me in front of others by creating a unique individual.

Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one.

You can steal someone's work but you can't steal the experience that he has gained from that work.

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

Creativity is not a gift, it's a mindset that you practice

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.

If you are a new, upcoming designer, you've got to think of new, cool ways to make the industry look at you. Don't just get stuck in a rut, show your clothes, and be like, 'You should like this.'

I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

I never studied fashion design.

I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a 'product.' I want people to know that I'm not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it's just about being myself on and off stage.

My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.