Originality Quotes

"The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth." "Be yourself because everyone else is already taken." "If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's" "If you really do want to be an authentic, liberated individual, don't do any copying except of old masters. Otherwise, you're probably better off just staying at home." "If you are not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original" "The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity" "There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it" "What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?" "All good things which exist are the fruits of originality" "If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." "You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the art goes out of it" "Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees but thinking what no one else has thought." "One of the exciting things about being an artist is that you’re able to invent new ways to tell stories that haven’t been told in that way before" "To understand is to discover, or reconstruct by rediscovery, and such conditions must be complied with if in the future individuals are to be formed who are capable of production and creativity and not simply repetition" "I got so many styles, I am a group" "Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there" "One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books." "Think off-center." "The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality" "The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct"