Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“No such thing as original thought. We are shadows of stars that burned before our time.” — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A wood might be in the river for years that doesn't make it a crocodile — Toluwani Adeleke Copy Share Image
Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality. — Gail Levin Copy Share Image
“Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate. — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What… — Paul Scheuring Copy Share Image
A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create...he discovers. Those who look for the laws of… — Antoni Gaudí Copy Share Image
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly.… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
If you walk in the footprints of others, you wont make any of your own. — Gusso Montanna Copy Share Image
It's better to fail in originality then it is to succeed in imitation. — Conor Maynard Copy Share Image
When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Be like a diamond; precious and rare, not like a stone that is found everywhere. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
