Quotes About Originality

The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail

Woman are like aesthetic paintings, each unique in their own way.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

There's no need to try and fit in. If you're lucky enough to be different, don't ever change. Be yourself, and someone will come into your life one day, not caring what other people think of you. They'll love you for who you are, not the person everyone else wants you to be.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

The unique must be fulfilled.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Today there are some worship artists doing well, but when you buy their latest album you don't expect any difference from the previous three. This doesn't seem to do justice to the awesome creative power of almighty God. Serving up the same old, same old is never on the menu for God.

Genius is not about conforming to societal norms, but about breaking free from them and forging new paths.

Great ideas are not polite. They never say they're sorry. They don't try to fit in. On the contrary, they force the world around them to make changes in self-defense.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. —Aristotle

They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind. So I left 'em sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind.

The hallmark of innovation is surprise. No surprise, nothing new. Nothing new, no interest. No interest, no value. Therefore, creating surprise is a crucial step in creating value through innovation.