Quotes About Originality

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.

When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

It's like, you know, it doesn't matter what you do, even if you try to replicate an experience down to every last detail, it'll never be the way it was when it happened naturally the first time.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

Creativity is the very source and the wonder of your experience.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

It's so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.