Quotes About Originality

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.

I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing.

If you are not yourself people will look right through you and see the pale shadow of someone else

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

I hope there is an edge to what I do.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.

Insanity is the base for Creativity.

My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

Paul Brunton was a great original and got to a place of personal evolution that illumines the pathways of a future humanity.