Quotes about Originality

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and make a trail.

I hate quotes: tell me what you know.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

Show me anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new, and I will show you it hath been.

would take more than a Jesus to invent a Jesus.5

We're all different. You can't be somebody else, so you might as well get good at being who you are.

It's very easy to find fault with ourselves and think we need to be like someone else. Be who you are and don't try to be a copy!

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving."

We stand before genius in silence. We cannot speak it, we can only speak as it. Yet, though I speak as genius, I cannot speak for genius. I cannot give nature a voice in my script. I can not give others a voice in my script-without denying their own source, their originality. To do so is to cease responding to the other, to cease being responsible. No one and nothing belong in my script.

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written. ( Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne , 8 September 1935)

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.