Top 100 Be Original Quotes
#1. If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
Bernard Meltzer
#2. Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
Walter Darby Bannard
#4. To be a classic, a novel should be original.
Ruth Rendell
#5. You've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing
Liona Boyd
#7. To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.
Edgar Alwin Payne
#8. [To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.
Jackie Kennedy
#9. Don't Pretend Fake Be Original Pretend To Be
Aziz Ahmed
#10. It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#11. An envious heart can't be original.
Toba Beta
#12. Your art not only doesn't have to be original, in other words; it also doesn't have to be important.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#13. Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.
Lester Young
#15. The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.
DJ Spooky
#16. Having a sense of security in one realm gives us the freedom to be original in another. By
Adam M. Grant
#17. It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original
for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did ...
Irving Sandler
#18. An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
Umberto Eco
#19. Where I come from, you had to be original. You had to come up with your own little moves. It doesn't matter if it's a big move. It had to be a dope original concept.
Roxrite
#20. -Climb out of mediocrity, it has no integrity. Climb out of imitation it is a limitation. Climb higher than copying, it is double standard. Come up to be original
Ikechukwu Joseph
#21. To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
Carl Rogers
#22. I don't care what you're playing. You can be playing EDM music. Well, guess what? That came out in the early '80s. There's no way to be original. All you can do is put yourself into it and do the best you can.
Brittany Howard
#23. Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
Orhan Pamuk
#24. Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy.
Lee Tamahori
#25. If an artist wants to be original, he should not look to art for inspiration, for art seeks its model in life, not art - and only life is rich enough to simulate originality.
Anthony Marais
#27. Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!
Marie Corelli
#28. It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.
Michael Foley
#29. To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity; men would be wiser if they were more moral.
Ludwig Borne
#30. I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
Philip Johnson
#31. If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
Anton Chekhov
#32. Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.
Jessica Simpson
#33. If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
Octavio Paz
#34. The best way to be original is to be yourself.
Paulo Coelho
#35. Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
Henri Matisse
#36. Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
Lukas Foss
#37. I thought maybe if you wore different clothes at school,' Paul said, 'maybe you could start a trend. You'd be original.' 'Oh, my God,' she said. 'It's high school, Dad. People get beat up for being original.
Sherman Alexie
#38. Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
Bob Seger
#39. It needs time, perspective, to show you that someone might be original.
Jill Dawson
#40. I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always said, "Be original!" but I didn't understand until I changed to be like everyone else.
Sandra Bullock
#41. Don't try to be original; just try to be good.
Paul Rand
#42. Be original, stop pretending to be someone you are not, be your own light in this world.
Leon Brown
#43. I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
Damon Lindelof
#44. But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
Marc Newson
#45. Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of us. Striving after originality takes you far away from your true self, and makes your work mediocre.
Keith Johnstone
#46. You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original.
You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you.
Toba Beta
#47. My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.
Abigail Disney
#48. The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
Walter Darby Bannard
#49. I remember once, I read in a horoscope, because I'm an Aries, I read this terrible thing, which really affected me, which said, "You will never be original. You will always be an interpreter." (Laughs) I thought, "Oh my God." You know, I had to live with that on my back for [all my life].
Andy Serkis
#50. Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.
Mayer Hawthorne
#51. In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
Eddie Izzard
#52. No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought..
C.S. Lewis
#53. You got to have style, and learn to be original.
KRS-One
#54. Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.
Bradford Winters
#55. I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original.
Tishuan Scott
#56. Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.
J.M. Coetzee
#57. To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years
to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#58. By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#59. You have to be original. The people creating a buzz on YouTube are taking risks, and they're doing something different. I like it when 15 year-olds come on and tell me what to do rather than the other way around.
Simon Cowell
#60. Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
Thomas A. Edison
#61. Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.
Paul Rand
#62. An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Jean Cocteau
#63. There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original.
Sergei Bongart
#64. I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.
Josh Hartnett
#65. Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors?
Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
Franz Grillparzer
#67. Don't fear, dream. Don't lie, tell stories. Don't limit, explore. Don't think, act. Don't try, do. Be original, be you. Most people hide behind their insecurities, and it's a horrible path to take. Dream big, and make something of yourself.
Jacob Michael White
#69. Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a very exciting and exhausting thing to do.
Maggie Steber
#70. No man who cares about originality will ever be original. It's the man who's only thinking about doing a good job or telling the truth who becomes really original
and doesn't notice it.
C.S. Lewis
#71. Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.
Evan Mandery
#72. The only excuse a man has for writing is that he express himself, that he reveal to others the kind of world reflected in the mirror of his soul; his only excuse is that he be original.
Remy De Gourmont
#73. Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them ...
Thomas A. Edison
#74. You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
Bernadette Peters
#75. After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.
Henry Peach Robinson
#76. If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.
Shepard Fairey
#78. Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, BUT they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.
Suzy Kassem
#79. In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.
Ray Bradbury
#80. It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
Gottfried Leibniz
#81. Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.
Susan Powter
#82. Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
H.P. Lovecraft
#83. I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah
#84. Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.
Lev Shestov
#86. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C.S. Lewis
#87. Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#88. Admiring doesn't make you exactly like what you admire, admire yourself and you will be original and exactly how you wish and feel to be.
Auliq Ice
#89. To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.
Richard Branson
#90. I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.
Emeli Sande
#91. True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#93. I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great artists and of course trying to be original at the same time. I try not to work under boundaries while I'm making music.
Asher Monroe
#94. Be original; don't be scared of being bold!
Ed Sheeran
#95. Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.
A.R. Rahman
#96. 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.
Thomas Mann
#97. The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.
Sarah Ferguson
#98. Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
Andre Maurois
#99. It is not so hard to be original, what is hard, is to be original with continuity.
Andres Segovia
#100. I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.
Jana Novotna
