Creativity Quote by Harry Partch

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

— John Steinbeck

“Many people fail to achieve originality because they generate a few ideas and then obsess about refining them to perfection.”

— Adam M. Grant

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

— Raymond Radiguet

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.

— Marty Neumeier

“Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.

— Marie Chapian

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

— Edith Wharton

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

— Stephen Dunn

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

— Adolf Hitler

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only…

— Washington Allston

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

— Arthur Koestler

If we’re free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we…

— Austin Kleon