Werner Herzog Quotes

It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your own personal way of saying things.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own and have a point of view, a perspective, and be able to translate it in some personal way.

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.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

I have a trend of my own.

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

I really value distinctive movies, movies that feel that they came from a person that was really something that they had conceived and they made and is a reflection of who they are.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

What appears on the page comes out of your experience, and no-one is going to see it in quite the same way - so, that being so, you're already doing something in a thoroughly individual and idiosyncratic way anyway.

I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.

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

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.