I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters. — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject. — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
“Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.” — Jeff Ryan Copy Share Image
I could care less about popularity. I live through reality. I base myself on originality. Forget about looks. I respect personality. — Lucas Hunter Copy Share Image
In the art world, originality is seen as a precious commodity and its increasingly difficult to get because the territory of art… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
If the original thoughts in life have been coined self with the enthusiasm, energy and effort, then the same empowered person will… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
I'm someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression. — Ava Max Copy Share Image
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — W. H. Auden 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
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
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
What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you fall in love with an idea, you won't see the merits of alternative approaches-and will probably miss an opportunity or… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
“The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything,… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The whole of life is like that now. It’s even impossible to think naturally because opinion has been set out for you… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“What do we mean - it is a common term of praise - when we say that a book is "original"? Not,… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly.… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest so rare and insignificant-and this commonly on the ground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The American Naming Authority, a collective of women studying the effects of names on behavior, decrees that a name should only have… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.” — R.J. Green Copy Share Image
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. — H. W. Janson Copy Share Image
