Quotes about Originality

The good news is, nobody can be a better you than you.

Develop your eccentricities early, and no one will think you're going senile later in life

Because man was created in the image of a creator. Man was created that he might create. It is not a waste of mans time to be creative. It is not a waste to pursue artistic or scientific pursuits in creativity, because this is what man was made to be able to do. He was made in he image of a creator, and given the capacity to create.

I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We each have to say it, to say it our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes out through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die.

I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.