Quotes about Originality

if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests he did not create a single leaf the same as another.

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Art should never be popular.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.