Quotes About Originality

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.

I want to be as creative as I want. I don't ever want to have to compromise; I don't ever want anybody ever to tell me what to do, I don't ever want to argue with somebody because of my vision.

When I discovered minimal music I felt I could create my vision - it was totally different to traditional music.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears.

What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

It was awesome working with Miley. She's a visionary and she's a creator and has a lot of ideas.

Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing. That's

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

Creativity is merely the arrangement of existing forms into new relationships.

The poet is a maker, not a retail trader.

If you have a simply swell story in mind, you can forget the rules. A swell story takes care of itself.

Peter always had a 'best before' date stamped on his forehead," said Ruth. "People who live in their heads do. They start out well enough, but eventually they run out of ideas. And if there's no imagination, no inspiration to fall back on? Then what?

Be yourself' is the worst advice you can give to some people.

In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror--indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.

Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.

Clearly, I'm not trying to write songs for the radio.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

Nature made him, and then broke the mold.

T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

Prince, what you are you are by accident of birth; what I am I am through myself. There have been and still will be thousands of princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Only very few men have the gift of thinking new and original ideas and of changing the traditional body of creeds and doctrines.