Quotes About Originality

We can't all be Mad Hatters," said Howl.

Pero quería hacer algo, no estaba segura de qué, algo que fuera un poco mas interesante que adornar sombreros.

Only by fumbling with countless bits of knowledge, and then ignoring most of it, does a creative mind craft something original.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

When people think an idea is theirs, he said later in his writings aboard Rea's Helm, they take it so much the more to heart than if they think they got it from someone else, or worse, followed a great public trend. There is nothing people want to do more than to follow great trends, and nothing they want less to seem to be doing.

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.

Ik schrijf dit terwijl ik in de gootsteen zit

Zero to One.

The trouble with capturing one is that that original gesture is almost impossible to equal or improve upon.

Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.

Think about how you are different than your competition.

Don't use the header of your website to differentiate yourself from somebody else.

And yet she was wholly herself: a rarity.

Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

You know what Picasso says. 'Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

Picasso says. 'Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

From William Blake to Lady Gaga, from Rousseau to Rumi to Tosca to Mister Rogers, it's a curiously uniform message, accepted from high to low: when in doubt, what to do? How do we know what's right for us? Every shrink, every career counselor, every Disney princess knows the answer: "Be yourself." "Follow your heart.

the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.

Aberjhani can write about anything, and give it uncommon beauty.

Appropriation was once associated with unprincipled borrowing from a minority population's art or culture, or shameless imitations that pretended to be the original. Nowadays, in discussions among African Americans, it seems to refer more often to a borrowing of black experience (and most often, black pain) in which the very act of borrowing, with or without attribution, is a form of inexcusable disrespect.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. George S. Patton

Before producers decided to keep things simple and call the show Friends, they toyed with the idea of Friends Like Us (ok, that's not too bad), Six of One (what?), Across the Hall (logical I guess), Insomnia Café (no, just no) and Once Upon a Time in the West Village (amazing).

My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.