Quotes About Originality

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

Everything solid was first an idea.

She says that you were all molded into being replicas of one another. She says the only way out was to be extraordinary.

Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

The secret to beauty is simple - be who you are.

Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.

Beauty is not generic. Quite often, the thing that makes you memorable is the thing that makes you different.

The beauty of art is that there are no rules

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.