Quotes about Originality

Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.

that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to become anything that you are not already.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

To live a creative life , we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Always be yourself, express yourself have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it .