Originality Quotes

484 Originality quotes by 369 unique authors

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its… — Nikolai Berdyaev
We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality. — Raymond Radiguet
It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done. — Criss Jami
Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos. — Criss Jami
Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it. — Nick Moran
When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only… — Bootsy Collins
If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per… — Hermann Bondi
In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will… — Nolan Gould
Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law --… — Clarice Lispector
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar,… — Hayden Carruth
After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original,… — Henry Peach Robinson
While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize. — John Landis Mason
Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much… — William Lipscomb
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause… — Leo Tolstoy
Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are. — Susan Polis Schutz
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. — James Russell Lowell
It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into… — Eric Hoffer
The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and… — Eric Hoffer
Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. — Eric Hoffer
In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what… — William Hazlitt
What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way… — Pablo Picasso
The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own. — Alfred de Musset
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

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