William Plomer Quotes

It's important to do something outside the box, and maybe that'll inspire people do also do something outside the box.

I feel like the most human among us are the weirdest among us. Those voices can be the most creative and the most special. You look around at your parents, your friends, your aunts and uncles, and you realize nobody is normal.

Everyone's going to like something that's different.

The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

One should always be a little improbable.

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

Things you think you're saying for the first time ever, have been said better before by Shakespeare, though they may need saying again.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it’s like, “Hey, I’ve got a cup in case we need another cup.” “Dude, you’re a genius!”

Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

When you're young, and even at times when you're older, it's hard to fathom this: What needs to be nurtured is the stuff that's different, that sets you apart from the pack, rather than the stuff that helps you blend in.

Creativity needs discipline and freedom.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts and disciplines. We should demand genius from everybody, without, however, expecting it.

When I'm making something I need it to be catchy - I need it to hit the sweet spot.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.