“In your lifetime, if you can come up with one original idea, you have accomplished a great deal.” — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring. — John Constable Copy Share Image
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. — Laurence J. Peter 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
Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not… — Scott Norton Copy Share Image
“If you are saying the same thing as everyone else, then why would and why should anyone think you are different from… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be interesting, original, & unique then follow the pack. Revel in who you truly are & be liberated!” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“No one has claim to originality in literature; all writers are more or less faithful amanuenses of the spirit, translators and annotators… — James E. Irby Copy Share Image
The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation,… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
I think it speaks to the fact that other people are as excited about originality as we are. I think the thing… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté:… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“That uncertainty can make us uncomfortable. We humans like to know where we are headed, but creativity demands that we travel paths… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind. Did they break… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“Here there is no doubt that timidity and a total lack of personal initiative have always been regarded among us as the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The best thing about Originality is being yourself , if you try to be someone ur not , your character will be… — JSV Copy Share Image
Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image