Originality Quotations

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes....

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

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

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

Originality is going back to origins.

Originality is a return to the origin.

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.

You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Originality is no excuse for ignorance.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Originality is really important.

That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.

Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.

To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

Originality is only variation.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.