Robert Sheckley Quotes

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

That's the thing about creating. When you create, you create your own thing, whatever that is. It's always going to seep through in whatever you do.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

There is no point in playing safe, because the audiences love different quirks: something that is crazy and out-of-the-box. I think that's what my space is, and if you are going to have your own space in the industry, this is where I want to be.

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

I'm not judging the films. People make these connections through a film, or because they know them. But the fact that they erase them and have to start from scratch, I think that's an important point. A lot of kids, when they have a camera, have tended to do remakes of existing films. You have a lot of kids that make Star Wars. And I think that's creativity, but not as much creativity as starting from scratch.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

Originality is only variation.

To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

Rhianna don't want you to give her what you think that she wants. She needs you to give her something that's fresh. So you have to bend your voice and bend your personality and bend the music to make sure it sounds like it's new to everybody.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.