Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am,… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing… — Thomas Couture Copy Share Image
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the… — Paul Arden Copy Share Image
“Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first. Originality consists of returning to the origin.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“It’s clear that you want to seem original. But is it possible that you—?” “It is clear,” interrupted I-330, “that to be… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and… — Robin Cousins Copy Share Image
Art is an infusion of inner feelings and thoughts executed in an original style that defines the artist. — Jean Norvy Copy Share Image
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are so many factors that one needs to keep in mind while composing for a film. Every movie is different and… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself? — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Don't judge yourself based on what people say about you, rumors are often quite easy to understand, but the truth always has… — Blaze Olermiday Copy Share Image
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
People look at me strangly because I am weird, but I roll my eyes at them because they all have attitude. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers. — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Each opinion, each view is necessarily partial, truncated, inadequate. In philosophy and in anything, originality comes down to incomplete definitions.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules,… — Alexander Kotov 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
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