Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels...

When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts...

If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.

Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY.

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man’s game. … Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at...

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original;...

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality.

I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own.

It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ”Don’t play like me, play like you.”

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

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.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied – or think that they have been denied – something.

Like almost all of Beefheart’s recorded work, it was not even “ahead” of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic...

Is it possible to say “It was a beautiful morning at the end of November” without feeling like Snoopy?

A person who speaks his own words makes the true sense to the world and, therefore, the real difference in the lives of the people to whom he speaks directly or indirectly.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

Originality of mind untainted,And enthusiasm for life, unlimited.

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other’s tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made...

I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things.

It’s good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn’t correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn’t fall...

Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won’t help someone who can’t think for themselves.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

The artist’s duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.

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.

Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.

Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes

The fastest way to die is to live a lie

Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

The voice of originality doesn’t get appeared, but is always heard very loud and clear through a person’ words.

If ever it’s necessary to ride the bandwagon, it’s done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

There’s no freshness. There’s no originality,

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at...

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

He: “Whale you be my valentine?” She: “Dolphinitely.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label ‘artist’ is to be used lightly.

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new...

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.

But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them—if you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down...

Why be a copy, when you’re the master copy mankind is looking for?

I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.

Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.

Stunning is the fact that a novel idea proposed by a person ordinary is initially not liked often by his or her friends any, but suddenly many of them like if the same or similar...

Create with the heart; build with the mind.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.