Quotes About Originality

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.

Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

I just go for what makes me feel good. Especially in 2011, it's so easy to sound like a dickhead when describing yourself because anything anyone says is a catch-word or a buzz-phrase.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

I think all good art is outsider art.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.

One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.

I just don't feel good if I'm repeating myself.

When someone offers me a job or a project, I always ask myself, "What does it tell me about the world?" and "Have I seen it before?" Two good questions.

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

Don't worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Be yourself, it's the best thing you can do.

There are people who have figured out the exact, you know, Kanye West formula, the mix between "Graduation" and "808s," and were able to become more successful at it.

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.

No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.