Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed. — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for. #StokesNotes” — Craig Stokes Copy Share Image
Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
We are all like snowflakes, all unique in our own special way. And just like two snowflakes no two people are the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary… — Mary Carroll Nelson Copy Share Image
Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is… — Paterson Ewen Copy Share Image
Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those things which are on the… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
“Originality' is the sickness of modernity that wishes to see itself as something new, always new, in order continually to witness its… — Carlos Fuentes 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
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone is born original but the majority of us die otherwise because we deny ourselves. The only way of… — Markson Bero Copy Share Image
“Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them—if you put your faith… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“I think many of us live with this nagging sense that we could go deeper. That there is some elusive "next level"… — Kate Kretz Copy Share Image
Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it… — Anonymous 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
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