Quotes About Originality

What is most lacking in the modern world of duplications and facsimiles, of endless information and intentional misinformation, is the authenticity that makes life truly meaningful and spiritually rewarding.

If originality and truth are your aim, cultivate your own back garden.

The only approved American models were James and Twain, neither of whom could be imitated.

How the mighty have fallen," he said, looking down on Aten. Ard-Greimne was short and incredibly sensitive about his height. He always wore shoes with lifts in them. When Aten didn't respond, he tried again. "I said, how the mighty—" "It wasn't funny or even clever the first time you said it," Aten said. "Nor is it original.

Be, who you be.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray… I am myself the matter of my book.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

Anyone who follows others never passes them by, and anyone who does not know how to do good works on his own cannot make good use of works by others.

I just think that once you begin to see things the way the camera says is the average way, the way most people want to see them, it can be hard to remember to go back and find your own focus, your own point of view" -Scott

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Work hard, be yourself, and have fun!

The slow blossoming of a notable career is sometimes a matter of a talent finding its way. Sometimes it's a matter of audiences coming into a gradual understanding of who that talent is, and sometimes it's a combination of both. The important thing is that the opportunities are there for this interchange to take place. Not only does it make for more and better actresses, but it provides an environment for completely original and distinct talents to emerge...

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.

Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell it for, or what the critics will think of it, he won't be able to pursue original avenues. Creative achievements depend on single-minded immersion.

Individuals who depart from the norms—heroes, saints, sages, artists, and poets, as well as madmen and criminals—look for different things in life than most others do.

joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

It's fun to come up with an idea, and if nobody wants it, I don't give a damn. It's just fun to come up with something strange and different.

Normal people are rarely original, but they are sometimes bizarre.

The real story of creativity is more difficult and strange than many overly optimistic accounts have claimed.