Originality Quotes

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

— Marianne Moore

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

— Mason Cooley

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

— Will Rogers

Originality provokes originality.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Originality is merely an illusion.

— Anonymous

The multitude is always in the wrong.

— Paulo Freire

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

— Roy Acuff

Originality is the best honesty.

— Maria Majorie Vergara

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

— Frank Crowninshield

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

— Nikola Tesla

My motivation is what sets me apart; that's what makes my swag original.

— Kevlin

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

— Stephen Dunn

Cute, weird, original girls with a big heart are so much more attractive than fake barbie wannabes!

— KiKi Strack

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri

“I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth.”

— Jane Yolen

“If you are saying the same thing as everyone else, then why would and why should anyone think you are different from…

— Loren Weisman

“There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.”

— Bryant McGill

“We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not…

— Scott Norton

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Terry Pratchett

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they…

— Walter Pater

Im Tired Of Being Called Fat And Ugly If Yhu Think That Fuck Yhu I Make Myself Like This So It Shudnt…

— Angela Webb

I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you,…

— RZA

Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to…

— Wafa Sultan

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of…

— Eric Hoffer

Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it…

— Avicii

The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage…

— Samuel Johnson

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula…

— Joanna Scott

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell…

— C. S. Lewis

To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one…

— Roger Ebert

The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was,…

— Oswald Chambers

Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty…

— Larry Bakersfield

“Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that "looks like art" and behave in…

— Sarah Thornton

The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all…

— Mark Twain

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings,…

— Jim Jarmusch

“What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise? If you put ten people in a room and…

— Timothy Ferriss

It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay…

— Isaac D'Israeli