Originality Quotes

484 Originality quotes by 369 unique authors

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. — James Stephens
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. — Anthony Storr
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your… — Amy Tan
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before. — Mark Twain
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. — Paul Valery
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. — Voltaire
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. — Edith Wharton
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. — Gustave Flaubert
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The multitude is always in the wrong. — Paulo Freire
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. — Walter Kaufmann
Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for… — Robert Henri
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. — Chuck Palahniuk
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality — David Mitchell
You were born original don't die a copy — Ben Mikaelsen
Don't try to be original; just try to be good. — Paul Rand
Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done. — Stephen Dunn
Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. — Arthur Koestler
Anymore, no one's mind is their own. — Chuck Palahniuk
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. — George Lois
If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid… — Quentin Crisp
This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me… — Toni Morrison

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