Quotes About Originality

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

it is imagination which makes one a leader while the lack of it makes one a follower.

He loved the strange privacy of being different.

You have got to get creative if you want anyone to notice your goddamn teenage angst.

Does optimizing for multitasking result in better functioning—that is, creativity, inventiveness, productiveness? The answer is, in more cases than not, no," says Grafman. "The more you multitask, the less deliberative you become; the less able to think and reason out a problem." You become, he argues, more likely to rely on conventional ideas and solutions rather than challenging them with original lines of thought.

Berg made himself unique so comparisons were impossible.

Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they're more in touch with human suffering.

Many fine keyboard players could and did emulate and recreate his parts, but nobody else other than Rick had the ability to create them in the first place.

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

I believe in the power of origins, a belief that, as Ecclesiastes put it, 'that wich is done is that wich shall be done: and there is no new thing under de sun'; that we claim as originality and discovery are nothing but the airs and delusios of our innocence, ignorance, and arrogance: that whatever is said was said better - more powerfully, beautifully, and purely, long ago

Sometimes people have to do new things, things that have never been done before. Everything your foremothers did was new once.

Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.

Vulgarity consists in striving to be what we are not.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

Your most frequently used tool should be your imagination, not your memory.

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead, US anthropologist (1901–78)