Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house. — Austin O'Malley 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
Being original is more important than fitting in, especially if you have to change to fit in — Lauren Willcox Copy Share Image
“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.” — Amit Kalantri 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
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
“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
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
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a… — Boris Pasternak 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of… — Criss Jami 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
“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
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
“Artists are the flowers of our world. The best ones are those that can stand out from the crowd and create their… — Suzy Kassem 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: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.” quote by Randall Jarrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa8/randall-jarrell-3811_aim_originality-is-everyone-s-aim-and-novel_641026.jpg)
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![“But what is [the] quality of originality? It is very hard to define or specify. Indeed, to define originality would in itself be a contradiction, since whatever action can be defined in this way must evidently henceforth be unoriginal. Perhaps, then, it will be best to hint at it obliquely and by…” quote by David Bohm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/769/david-bohm-4805_around-the-world_but-what-is-the-quality-of-originality-i_2214086.jpg)
