Quotes About Originality

Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece.

don't worry much about trying to be better than someone else.

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession…. Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Self-Reliance

that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to become anything that you are not already.

I look for things that no one I know, even myself, would ever come up with. If your solution is something that your friends or family might come up with, throw it away.

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.

DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me...

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

Don't be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

My greatest fear: repetition.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

The enemy of fear is creativity.