Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed. — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“Originality is putting its pants on while orthodoxy is ready to deliver.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom! — John Keats Copy Share Image
“It’s very original, no doubt, but not for a hot evening. What I need is some trollop.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
“Every language has is a beauty, it has it's own uniqueness, it's own fascinating sounds that birth the originality of human being.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“Each opinion, each view is necessarily partial, truncated, inadequate. In philosophy and in anything, originality comes down to incomplete definitions.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers. — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The whole of life is like that now. It’s even impossible to think naturally because opinion has been set out for you… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I used to make original snowmen, but it was time consuming, hard work. So I said, heck, this is crazy! Now I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“but it can’t tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It takes gumption to wake up every day to face the fickle world and cleave to your morals and values Not flinch… — Emmanuella Raphaelle Copy Share Image
“Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“One demands a little originality in these days, even from murderers," said Lady Swaffham. "Like dramatists, you know--so much easier in Shakespeare's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“If originality is a “sense of novelty and freshness” then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We… — Gabby Bess Copy Share Image
“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
