Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
“I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired — Angela Phillips Copy Share Image
The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality. — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I don’t believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things. — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique. — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things… — Vaclav Havel 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
Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless… — James Beard Copy Share Image
Somebody asked meh- Broda What is FAce BooK? (earlier it was original, real but now a days its just a Fake- book..isn't?… — Raghav Singh Copy Share Image
I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Studios are often very nervous of things they don't recognize, by which I mean things that haven't been done before, and therefore,… — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“I believe in the power of origins, a belief that, as Ecclesiastes put it, 'that wich is done is that wich shall… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the… — Eugene Manlove Rhodes Copy Share Image
Every colonized people-in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a… — Thomas Merton 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
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
Despite its self-regard, and much like a society of devout followers, the art world relies on consensus as heavily as it depends… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
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