Quotes about Originality

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity. Votes: 5

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. Votes: 5

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.... Votes: 4

Originality is the art of concealing your sources. Votes: 4

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. Votes: 4

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. Votes: 4

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. Votes: 4

Originality provokes originality. Votes: 3

Originality is only variation. Votes: 3

Originality is really important. Votes: 3

Originality is undetected plagiarism. Votes: 3

Originality is merely an illusion. Votes: 3

Originality is going back to origins. Votes: 3

Originality is no excuse for ignorance. Votes: 3

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism. Votes: 3

Originality is for people with short memories Votes: 3

Originality will be rewarded in any line. Votes: 3

Originality is a return to the origin. Votes: 3

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. Votes: 3

Originality is in the eye of the beholder. Votes: 3

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't. Votes: 3

Originality is the art of concealing your source. Votes: 3

Originality is being different from oneself, not others. Votes: 3

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. Votes: 3

Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step. Votes: 3

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences Votes: 3

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace. Votes: 3

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. Votes: 3

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. Votes: 3

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint. Votes: 3

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country. Votes: 3

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. Votes: 3

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. Votes: 3

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. Votes: 3

Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed. Votes: 3

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Votes: 3

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. Votes: 3

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. Votes: 3

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different. Votes: 3

Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it. Votes: 3

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. Votes: 3

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. Votes: 3

Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do. Votes: 3

Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house. Votes: 3

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work. Votes: 3

Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. Votes: 3

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. Votes: 3

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. Votes: 3

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done. Votes: 3

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny. Votes: 3

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Votes: 3

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. Votes: 3

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. Votes: 3

Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life. Votes: 3

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions. Votes: 3

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. Votes: 3

What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend. Votes: 3

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. Votes: 3

Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been. Votes: 3

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath. Votes: 3

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it. Votes: 3

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst. Votes: 3

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst. Votes: 3

Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done. Votes: 3

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation. Votes: 3

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious. Votes: 3

Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original. Votes: 3

All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye. Votes: 3

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born. Votes: 3

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness. Votes: 3

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with. Votes: 3

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. Votes: 3

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. Votes: 2

Insist upon yourself. Be original. Votes: 2

I invent nothing, I rediscover. Votes: 2

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. Votes: 2

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality. Votes: 2

A poor original is better than a good imitation. Votes: 2

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. Votes: 2

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Votes: 2

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. Votes: 2

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. Votes: 2

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. Votes: 2

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival. Votes: 2

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. Votes: 2

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. Votes: 2

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. Votes: 1

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Votes: 1

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. Votes: 1

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. Votes: 1

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality. Votes: 1

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 own voice. Votes: 1

In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out. Votes: 1

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. Votes: 1

Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words. Votes: 1

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at. Votes: 1

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. Votes: 1

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality. Votes: 1

Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here, he never felt at home in Britain. This juxtaposition was a crucial source of his strength and originality. Because of his colour and origin, he saw the country differently - not as a native, but as an outsider. Votes: 1

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. Votes: 0

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere. Votes: 0

Story is about originality, not duplication Votes: 0

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality. Votes: 0

Dedication to quality, community, and originality without exception. Votes: 0

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. Votes: 0

A good imitation is the most perfect originality Votes: 0

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art. Votes: 0

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality. Votes: 0

I really do not aim at any originality. Votes: 0

The originality of a subject is in its treatment. Votes: 0

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. Votes: 0

Only those with no memory insist on their originality. Votes: 0

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching. Votes: 0

...originality is little morethan the fine blending of influences. Votes: 0

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius. Votes: 0

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival. Votes: 0

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality. Votes: 0

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. Votes: 0

Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds. Votes: 0

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. Votes: 0

You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful. Votes: 0

Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change. Votes: 0

Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence. Votes: 0

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality. Votes: 0

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. Votes: 0

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity. Votes: 0

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. Votes: 0

Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality. Votes: 0

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. Votes: 0

The depth of your art is subject to originality; Your own authentic style. Votes: 0

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others. Votes: 0

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality Votes: 0

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed. Votes: 0

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. Votes: 0

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. Votes: 0

Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent. Votes: 0

To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. Votes: 0

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. Votes: 0

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill. Votes: 0

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. Votes: 0

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking. Votes: 0

For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality. Votes: 0

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers. Votes: 0

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence. Votes: 0

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Votes: 0

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. Votes: 0

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. Votes: 0

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. Votes: 0

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. Votes: 0

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality Votes: 0

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. Votes: 0

We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality. Votes: 0

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are. Votes: 0

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. Votes: 0

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens. Votes: 0

That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality. Votes: 0

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know Votes: 0

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. Votes: 0

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. Votes: 0

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it. Votes: 0

If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you. Votes: 0

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with. Votes: 0

I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters. Votes: 0

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. Votes: 0

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society. Votes: 0

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Votes: 0

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success. Votes: 0

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. Votes: 0

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any. Votes: 0

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. Votes: 0

Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate. Votes: 0

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones. Votes: 0

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. Votes: 0

Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important? Votes: 0

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality. Votes: 0

Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life. Votes: 0

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy. Votes: 0

Never change your originality for the sake of others because no one can play your role better than you. Votes: 0

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality. Votes: 0

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. Votes: 0

I don't believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things. Votes: 0

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. Votes: 0

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist. Votes: 0

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality. Votes: 0

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. Votes: 0

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. Votes: 0

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy. Votes: 0

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. Votes: 0

The genius of stable societies is that they achieve stability without stagnation, repetition without monotony, conformity with originality, obedience with liberty. Votes: 0

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. Votes: 0

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves. Votes: 0

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality. Votes: 0

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality Votes: 0

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility. Votes: 0

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. Votes: 0

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality. Votes: 0

From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique. Votes: 0

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. Votes: 0

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life. Votes: 0

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity Votes: 0

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original! Votes: 0

If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality. Votes: 0

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion. Votes: 0

In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him. Votes: 0

From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique. Votes: 0

Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one. Votes: 0

For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn. Votes: 0

There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'. Votes: 0

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. Votes: 0

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone. Votes: 0

To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions. Votes: 0

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. Votes: 0

John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator. Votes: 0

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality. Votes: 0

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality. Votes: 0

We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not been heard before. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things that make sense. Votes: 0

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. Votes: 0

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them. Votes: 0

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 originality. Votes: 0

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not. Votes: 0

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared. Votes: 0

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft. Votes: 0

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative. Votes: 0

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents. Votes: 0

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had. Votes: 0

In proportion as our own mind is enlarged we discover a greater number of men of originality. Commonplace people see no difference between one man and another. Votes: 0

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source. Votes: 0

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality. Votes: 0

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation. Votes: 0

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality. Votes: 0

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention. Votes: 0

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct. Votes: 0

Creativity starts with a little touch of insanity and culminates with the highest trust on its beauty, but throughout it maintains the hands of originality,humanity and ALMIGHTY. Votes: 0

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent Votes: 0

The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting. Votes: 0

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, not for another. Votes: 0

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man. Votes: 0

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source. Votes: 0

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man. Votes: 0

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them. Votes: 0

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea. Votes: 0

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others. Votes: 0

You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale. Votes: 0

It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus! Votes: 0

If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view. Votes: 0

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 and pictures into new relationships. Votes: 0

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality. Votes: 0

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original. Votes: 0

Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness. Votes: 0

Without criticism of Islam, Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. It will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality, originality and truth. Votes: 0

If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time. Votes: 0

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. Votes: 0

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers. Votes: 0

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 this goes on to the end. Votes: 0

Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family. Votes: 0

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 your individuality, in search of freedom. Votes: 0

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others. Votes: 0

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. Votes: 0

Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading. Votes: 0

With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit. Votes: 0

Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. "¦ He's at his best when he unleashes his extraordinary powers of observation. Votes: 0

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art. Votes: 0

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect. Votes: 0

I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans. Votes: 0

I think we ought to decide that man-hating is not only respectable but honorable. To be a misandrist a woman needs considerable ingenuity, originality, and resilience. A misogynist requires no such resources. Votes: 0

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing. Votes: 0

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence. Votes: 0

[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons and objects; 4. extreme brevity; 5. audacity and originality: flee the stereotype; 6. compassion. Votes: 0

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality. Votes: 0

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 appraising and describing the work of other men. Votes: 0

Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever. Votes: 0

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition. Votes: 0

It is the fate of every great achievement to be pounced upon by pedants and imitators who drain it of life and turn it into an orthodoxy which stifles all stirrings of originality. Votes: 0

Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they can shake the heart with what they do, is the key! Votes: 0

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. Votes: 0

It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own). Votes: 0

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself. Votes: 0

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. "¦ No one can be a scientist "¦ if he does not have independence of observation and of thought. Votes: 0

Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or turning to government, but rather by applying leadership, inventiveness, creativity and originality. Votes: 0

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. Votes: 0

Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help. Votes: 0

After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism. Votes: 0

To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating. Votes: 0

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life. Votes: 0

The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a "wholesome personality" are inevitably their own. Votes: 0

Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time. Votes: 0