Quotes About Originality

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

Kazuo Ishiguro, the New Nobel Laureate, Has Supremely Done His Own Kind of Thing

There is nothing original I can offer this child. I am obligated to make an offering, however, a virgin to the gods, a stuffed animal to a new baby. If I lay this gift on the altar, will you promise me I'll never get pregnant? I

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement.

dare to be different

We are All Unique But Not Different..

The art of Life is to be Ourselves.

Alone is Nothing, be Different is Everthing.

Be not a Follower, because of others want that, be always the Leader from Ourselves. Jan Jansen

We all have our own way in a different thinking.

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We've got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

As her writing developed, Jane Austen recognised that there were different ways of creating original works of art and that the skills acquired from experience and experimentation were ultimately as important as the initial sparks of inspiration.

You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

It was assumed that genre films could not have any artistic merit, because the were not original works and because they were not authored works. These standards of evaluation are based upon a romantic theory of art that places the highest value on the concepts of originality, person creativity, and the idea of individual artist as genius.

you can be different if u be u

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

Joining anything was not my usual thing- by a long shot... I don't know about you, but if 50 million people are doing something, I want to be doing something else- big time.

Independent thinkers are usually deemed nuts until everyone realizes they were onto something all along

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

When someone copies you, they are copying a moment in time. They don't know the thinking that went into getting you to that moment in time, and they won't know the thinking that'll help you have a million more moments in time. They're stuck with what you left behind.

Si lo que quieres es lanzar el «nuevo iPod» o el «sustituto de Pokemon», entonces estás muerto. Estás dejando que sea tu competencia quien determine los parámetros. No serás nunca más Apple que Apple. Ellos definen las reglas del juego. No podrás nunca ganar al que pone las reglas. Tienes que redefinir el juego, y no limitarte a hacer algo un poquito mejor.