What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Being the best is great, your the number one. Being unique is greater, your the only one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world. — Charlene Costanzo Copy Share Image
Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me. — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
“In writing 'here', I freely admit that many times I read it 'there' and placed it 'here'. But the ultimate joy comes… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
When you're making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime... it's going to lack originality and creativity, so I… — Shinichiro Watanabe Copy Share Image
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
Originality cannot be a goal. It is simply inevitable. The truly pathbreaking step can never be predicted, and certainly not by the… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I don't care about popularity or on how many numbers a blogger can have or how long each word exist. Because it's… — Gien Caytuna Copy Share Image
“An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“I think many of us live with this nagging sense that we could go deeper. That there is some elusive "next level"… — Kate Kretz Copy Share Image
Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“STAY AN ORIGINAL WORK OF ART In this short lifetime, Why not be -- True to your own voice, Your own story,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Nothing is original.. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Being good is more important than being original. Originality is a product, not an intention. — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them. — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
“Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.” — Gerard Puccio Copy Share Image
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain one once we grow up. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense. — Robert Graham Copy Share Image
