Originality Quotes

484 Originality quotes by 369 unique authors

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of… — Rajneesh
Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. — George Bernard Shaw
The originality of a subject is in its treatment. — Benjamin Disraeli
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself,… — Thomas Carlyle
People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. — Unknown Author
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. — Jean Guitton
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. — Raymond Radiguet
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist. — Lukas Foss
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

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