Top 100 Quotes About Originality
#1. I rallied all the youth around me, all the people who liked Compa, but felt like it was dying, going away, being replaced with Zouk. So it became a movement. So, through the years, I've played my music with dedication, discipline and originality, and controversy also.
Michel Martelly
#2. No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!
Paul Gauguin
#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.
Umberto Eco
#4. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.
Criss Jami
#5. I don't believe in originality. You take inspiration from whatever moves you and you find your voice in those things.
Tim Walker
#6. He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.
Milan Kundera
#7. Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
Khalil Gibran
#9. It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
Saul Bellow
#10. What heightens ingenuity heightens productivity.
What heightens creativity heightens originality.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.
Patti Smith
#12. Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
#14. The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
A.R. Rahman
#15. 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.
Richard Tillinghast
#16. Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality
Adolf Hitler
#17. Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy .
Colin Farrell
#18. Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?
Robert Owen
#19. 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.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#20. The new is a guest in the house of the old.
Marty Rubin
#21. To return to the moment of radical innocence. To paint. To stretch canvas. To find the point of originality. It wasn't a hippie idea. Both of us always hated the hippies, their flowers, their poems, their one idea. We were the furthest thing from hippies. We were the edge, the definers.
Colum McCann
#22. In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.
Paul Horn
#23. This sucks on so many levels." Dialogue from "Jason X" Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. "Jason X" sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.
Roger Ebert
#24. but it can't tell you where you ought to go, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you were going in the past. Creativity, originality, inventiveness, intuition, imagination - "unstuckness," in other words - are completely outside its domain. We
Robert M. Pirsig
#25. If people are always comfortable with you, you're probably not telling them the whole truth.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
#26. I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.
Charlotte Bronte
#27. To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.
Les Paul
#28. The artist's duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.
Marty Rubin
#29. While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.
John Landis Mason
#30. Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.
Oswald Chambers
#32. 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.
Eric Hoffer
#33. Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.
Robert Frost
#36. Don't ever worry what the boys who don't appreciate originality think of you. They're fools.
Cat Winters
#37. Freedom is valued in a culture that wants to encourage dissent and to stimulate originality and independence. It belongs to a society which is open to change, and which esteems the agent of change, the individual, above its own peace of mind.
Jacob Bronowski
#38. Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.
Malcolm Bradbury
#39. The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.
Alexander Kotov
#40. Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.
Criss Jami
#41. It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.
Angela Phillips
#42. The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.
James Joyce
#43. 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.
Steve Martin
#44. Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity
Vladimir Nabokov
#45. 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.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#46. The scramble to get higher, to be seen, the cycle of creation and rebellion, everyone assuming they were saying something new or doing something new, something profound
when the truth was tat it had all been done a million billion times.
Jess Walter
#47. The whole of life is like that now. It's even impossible to think naturally because opinion has been set out for you to read back. Originality has been used up. And yet faith in one's uniqueness dies hard.
Tom Stoppard
#48. There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject.
Donald Lambert
#49. I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.
Donna Lynn Hope
#50. Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.
Criss Jami
#51. Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.
Franz Grillparzer
#52. Story is about originality, not duplication
Robert McKee
#53. 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.
Nolan Gould
#54. All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
Charles Caleb Colton
#55. One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an "outsider." This fear has led us down the road to conformity, has put the imprint of "the organization man" on our souls, and has robbed us of originality of thought, individuality of personality, and constructive action.
Billy Graham
#56. The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.
Amit Kalantri
#57. There's plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.
Thomas Lux
#58. 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.
Lester Young
#59. How do you write about something, even something real and painful-like suicide-when all of the writing that's been done on that subject has robbed you of any originality of expression?
Jeffrey Eugenides
#60. No matter what China is going to become, China will never recover her true originality if she tries to please the West on Western terms.
Thorsten J. Pattberg
#61. The standards for horror fiction should be no less than those for 'serious literary' fiction in which originality of concept, depth of characters, and attentiveness to language are vitally important.
Joyce Carol Oates
#62. 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.
Washington Allston
#63. If you can persist your originality at every situation without masking your face, undoubtedly you are an achiever!
Nelson Jack
#64. Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#66. I respond to authenticity and originality, and I've been a fan of Don Winslow's ever since 'The Power Of The Dog.'
Chuck Hogan
#67. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
George Lois
#68. Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
John Stuart Mill
#69. No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.
Ashly Lorenzana
#70. 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!
Hiromi
#71. I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.
N.M. Silber
#72. A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
#73. In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration ... The words used, however, should be old ones.
Fujiwara No Teika
#74. Originality is little more
than the fine blending of influences.
Teju Cole
#75. 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.
James Jackson Jarves
#76. It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.
William Butler Yeats
#77. Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.
Franklyn Ajaye
#78. Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.
John Steinbeck
#79. No one has claim to originality in literature; all writers are more or less faithful amanuenses of the spirit, translators and annotators of pre-existing archetypes.
James E. Irby
#80. We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day.
Dave Eggers
#81. The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists. I've
Adam M. Grant
#82. I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.
Sam Shepard
#83. He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.
Adam Young
#84. Originality is the key to being memorable.
Suzy Kassem
#85. 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.
John Ruskin
#86. 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.
Scott Norton
#87. 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
#88. 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.
Jonathan Demme
#89. Charlotte Bronte borrowed liberally and sloppily from Joseph Sheridan le Fanu when penning Jane Eyre. The originality of this classic novel is tarnished as a result.
Andrew Barger
#91. The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Arthur Koestler
#92. Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Charles Baudelaire
#93. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.
Jim Jarmusch
#94. When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.
Bootsy Collins
#95. Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.
Lester Bangs
#96. Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
Michael D. O'Brien
#97. 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.
H.L. Mencken
#98. 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.
Vaclav Havel
