Originality Quotes

"Different is better when it is more effective or more fun." "The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same." "You gotta stand up and assert your creativity even if everyone around you is a grey suit" "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude" "To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great." "Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work" "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." "True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision" "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." "The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that" "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" "Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you the edge"