Quotes About Originality

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

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

Just be you...'cause that's good enough for me!

Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else.

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

It's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Good writers are of necessity rare.

I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas

Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

People should be happy to see you when you show up to a club because you're a good person. And stop caring about what the industry is "looking for". Just say what you think is funny. .

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.