Giuseppe Zanotti Quotes

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.