Quotes About Originality

These three things always work together— moral intelligence, the spontaneous originality of the Holy Spirit, and the setting of a life lived in communion with God.

Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is something altogether different.

Never make a principle out of your experience;let God be as original with other people as He is with you.

A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. Never try to make your experience a principle for others, but allow God to be as creative and original with others as He is with you.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own," said Scipio, "he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

Do we dare to be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity

The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

An artist has to stick true to their own beliefs and be a pioneer. They're not necessarily pleasing a studio or a government or anybody else but just being honest and raw and expressing themselves in a beautiful way. That's not always what people want to hear or expect to see.

It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.

But she found herself drawn to Ivy because he wasn't like her at all, wasn't like anyone, really. Most people were different because they wanted to be noticed. ivy was different because he couldn't be anyone else

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

I am different. Let this not upset you.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring—and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

Hétérogénéité naturelle, originaire, tel est le destin de l'art.

That's a pretty lame superhero name," I told him. "Scooby-Doo is already taken," he said with dignity. "Anything else sounds lame in comparison.