Quotes About Originality

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

Innovation is the creation of the new, or the re-arranging of the old in a new way

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.

Never follow the crowd.

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

People are always telling me that i'm not like other girls...that i dont dress like other girls...that i dont act like other girls. But i'm my OWN person...i go to the beat of my own drum.

Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.

I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.

Never play a thing the same way twice.

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.