Quotes about Originality

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it. Come

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Unlike singers, who can earn for years by singing one song, we artistes have to be on our toes all the time. If I write something funny or create a joke in the morning, there will be someone narrating my own joke to me the same evening.

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

The rising levels of production and content are prompting producers to take up unusual subjects.

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

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

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.