Quotes About Originality

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

Great minds think for themselves.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

I simply find it boring to walk around like everybody else. I find it really great to stand out and do something special.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that was super-polarizing and redefined the sound of radio.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.