Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with. — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done. — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Cute, weird, original girls with a big heart are so much more attractive than fake barbie wannabes! — KiKi Strack Copy Share Image
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Im Tired Of Being Called Fat And Ugly If Yhu Think That Fuck Yhu I Make Myself Like This So It Shudnt… — Angela Webb Copy Share Image
Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the… — Anuj Copy Share Image
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“Plenty of masterpieces are just one cliché after another, Mozart for example, but that's quite natural, because if you think about it,… — Thomas Ades Copy Share Image
The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual,… — Lester Beall Copy Share Image
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“There is not an oath, or at least a curse amongst them, which has not been copied over and over again out… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
“For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“But what is [the] quality of originality? It is very hard to define or specify. Indeed, to define originality would in itself… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so annoying as to be fairly rich, of a fairly good family, pleasing presence, average education, to be "not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image