It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. — Steven Whitney 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
Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it… — Bob Seger 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
I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming… — Julia Margaret Cameron 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
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator. — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“I have pulled threads from magic tapestries already woven and used them to weave my own cloth.” — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
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