393 Quotes About Originality

A genuine stone is better than a counterfeit gem.

To be young means to be original, to have remained nearer to the sources of life: it means to be able to stand up and shake off the fetters of an outlived civilization, to dare -- where others lack the courage-- to plunge again into the elemental.

Why are you this way, son?" the desperate father inquired. "I was born to fit in, but can only achieve this standing out," the artist replied.

Original daisies are worth more than counterfeit roses.

What is style? It is to speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.

Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will.

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late night cocktail lounge cover band limbo.