Brenda Ueland Quotes

Stop comparing yourself to other people; you are an original. We are all different and it's okay.

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

I can't be compared to anybody else.

From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.

Whenever someone says I'm the next Oprah, I always respond, 'Child, there's only one Mahogany, and only one Oprah.' There are no others.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

Through my unique style of playing, I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are.

I don't wanna be like everybody else, I don't wanna rap like everybody else.

I don't compare myself with anybody.

Beauty can grow as a whole, since you shouldn't copy other people.

You can filter certain stuff - it depends what artist you are - but you're never going to be true to yourself if you're worried about what other people think.

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

For me, the best way to be as an artist is to be completely yourself, letting that vulnerability come through.

It's funny: I rarely reference anything, and I'm one of those people that doesn't really spend much time in other people's worlds. I just try and create my own and make it as distinctive as I can.

Don't be afraid to show off who you are.

As long as you're being yourself and putting out what you want to put out, it'll be the best thing you could do.