Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

— Benjamin Franklin

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

— Franklin P. Jones

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

— Arthur Koestler

“Originality is the art of hiding your source”

— Harry Roolaart

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

— Eli Siegel

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds,…

— Bill Viola

Hip hop is expression..our roots and culture..Its your duty to contribute uniqueness to this artform. Desire of bringing somethin new, improved, witty and soul…

— Larry Bakersfield

I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from…

— Noam Chomsky

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to be average, do what others do. If you want to be awesome, do what no one does.

— Alexander Den Heijer

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

— Criss Jami

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality,…

— Joanna Scott

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

— Eric Hoffer

“Desert are you, deluge are you, in a crowd of fakes, only truth is you.”

— Abhijit Naskar