Originality Quotes

484 Originality quotes by 369 unique authors

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help. — Sam Shepard
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent. — Viacheslav Platonov
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. — John G. Shedd
People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. — John Miller
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. — Georges Seurat
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth. — Unknown Author
Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as… — George Augustus Henry Sala
Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. — Thomas Couture
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover… — Michel Foucault
No man knows himself as an original. — Washington Allston
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life… — H. L. Mencken
While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger than I. I… — Hal Porter
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be… — Joseph Brodsky
As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed. — Unknown Author
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. — Joshua Reynolds
It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of a writer, and… — Skip Horack
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality. — Burt Lancaster
An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his… — Kate Mulgrew

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