Quotes About Originality

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that's a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs.

You always have to defend the imagination against idiots.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Follow your own weird.

Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.