#originality

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#being #beyond #bold #enough #go

Conform, go crazy, or become an artist. ↗

— Nancy Springer

#originality #artists

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else? ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#motivational #originality #inspirational

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. ↗

— Patti Smith

#inspiration #janis-joplin #jim-morrison #music #originality

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had. ↗

— Robin Cousins

#dance #deal #figure #figure skating #form

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

#creativity #genius #insanity #originality #schizophrenia

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#feel #minds #one thing #originality #the one thing

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. ↗

— Raymond Radiguet

#else #everybody #everybody else #failing #like

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. ↗

— Malcolm X

#origins #racism #roots #originality

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#originality #plagiarism #nature