Quotes About Originality

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

You shine for who you are ... because no one can steal your light.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.

Everyone is born unique. No comparison is possible. You are you, and I am I.