Quotes about Originality

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

Try not to get caught up in the echo chamber. That is probably the toughest thing when you are trying to break out and do something original.

A Nine-Year-Old Kid Can Do Edgecraft While the edges always change, the process never does. Here's how you do it: Find a product or service that's completely unrelated to your industry. Figure out who's winning by being remarkable. Discover which edge they went to. Do that in your own industry.

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured.

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.

I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing authors and reviews, I sit on committees with capable practical greengrocers and bootmakers... Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

Don't try to be anyone else because that's been done before. Find yourself and what makes you tick.

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

There is nothing new under the sun. It has been done before.