Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

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

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

Originality is only variation.

If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost.

Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

Story is about originality, not duplication

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Originality is really important.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

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

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

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.