Originality Quotes

484 Originality quotes by 369 unique authors

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words… — Leo Burnett
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many… — Beverley Nichols
It is always better to be an original than an imitation. — Theodore Roosevelt
I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which,… — Julia Margaret Cameron
Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another,… — Criss Jami
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. — Madame de Stael
With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays… — Robert Musil
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like… — William Allingham
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of… — George Steiner
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. — Erich Fromm
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. — Stephen Fry
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. — Antonio Gaudi
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality. — Mason Cooley
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly… — Salvador Dali
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said… — Eugene Delacroix
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. — John Dewey
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. — Gustave Flaubert
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. — Aldous Huxley
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. — Franz Kafka
He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. — Arthur Koestler

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