Originality Quotes

An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work o...

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,that Joplin had the last drunken throat...

If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his ...

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistak...

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originali...

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

All cases are unique and very similar to others.

To be young means to be original, to have remained nearer to the sources of life: it means to be abl...

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.In one word he told me secret of succes...

Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoop...

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the fi...

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another....

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they s...

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with d...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fu...

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fu...

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived noti...

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and y...

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and ...

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberat...

The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society pr...

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why shou...

Utter originality is of course out of the question.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or scienc...

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator,...

Riding hard for glory.

The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right...

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before but in saying exactly what ...

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgme...

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Do your own thing. Others own their own thing. If you copy too much, you'll find yourself in late ni...

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and ...

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structur...

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism ca...

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

What a good thing Adam had - when he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property,...

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside ...

Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you...

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, ...

For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest ...

The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, s...

Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entire...