Originality Quotes

"Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. " "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible" "Because to go where others have never gone, you have to do what others have never done." "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." "We all know that distinctiveness – originality – is valuable. We are all taught to “be yourself. What I’m really asking you to do is to embrace and be realistic about how much energy it takes to maintain that distinctiveness. The world wants you to be typi" "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." "I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own" "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." "If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash really the fun stuff" "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from" "I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual." "I never paint dreams or nightmares I paint my own reality" "I'm inspired by people who are unapologetically themselves" "True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision" "You have to be unique and different and shine in your own way" "Don’t be the best. Be the only." "Never follow the crowd." "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." "We all agree that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct"