Quotes About Originality

I still believe that the best art - be it music, comedy, painting, etc. - is the art that hasn't been asked for, or is expected.

Just because everybody else does something isn't a good enough reason to do anything.

You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.

I'm not trying to be like everybody else. I want to be Clemson, and Clemson's not for everybody.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

I feel like I wanted to run differently than everybody else did. And I want to do things that everybody else hasn't done.

I have to keep doing me. I have to not look at what everybody else is doing, or what everybody else thinks should be happening right now.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Breakthrough to Creativity.

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

everyone else in the world

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

Normal people do not create art.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Be the one who sets the trend, not the one who follows it.

If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o'clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature…. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.