We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me. — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
Its never possible taking trust to the next stronghold yet its originality is movable — Meekness Tapera Copy Share Image
That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The punk era, at its best, celebrated questioning the norm and the promotion of originality. Both concepts have always resonated with me. — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
When you're making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime... it's going to lack originality and creativity, so I… — Shinichiro Watanabe Copy Share Image
“In writing 'here', I freely admit that many times I read it 'there' and placed it 'here'. But the ultimate joy comes… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We loved the Beach Boys, bands like that, but our originality came out of our lack of ability as copiers. They did… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have… — Mr. Carmack Copy Share Image
“Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his… — Richard Tillinghast Copy Share Image
Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
A sensible man would always rate it better to win somebody's heart with originality and simplicity on any accomplishment than feel good… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts… — A. O. Scott 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
Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Moreover — just as in moments of musing contemplation of nature, the normal actions of the mind being suspended, and our abstract… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality,… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“You will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making.… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What do we mean - it is a common term of praise - when we say that a book is "original"? Not,… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image