Quotes About Originality And Creativity

#1. 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

#2. Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. Originality of mind untainted,
And enthusiasm for life, unlimited.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#4. 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.

Henry Peach Robinson

#5. 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.

Brene Brown

#6. Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

Gustave Flaubert

#7. 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.

Anuj

#8. The greater your creativity, the greater your originality.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means 'originality': The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising

David Ogilvy

#10. The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Koestler

#11. The human spirit's unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#12. Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

Criss Jami

#13. Creativity is easy.
Originality is difficult.
Relevance is a bitch.

Mark Rude

#14. 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.

Oliver DeMille

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

Andy Warhol

#16. When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.

Criss Jami

#17. Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.

Mike Norton

#18. Follow your dreams, not the crowd.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

N.M. Silber

#20. Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

Morgan Freeman

#21. Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off

Augusten Burroughs

#22. Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

Jeff Ryan

#23. Originality has nothing to do with producing something ' new' - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one's origins, it is the dance of the eternal return ... and is as ancient as the Dreamtime.

Billy Marshall Stoneking

#24. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

Mary Shelley

#25. When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Criss Jami

#26. There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.

Bryant McGill

#27. Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

Nnamdi Azikiwe

#28. Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Coco Chanel

#29. Create with the heart; build with the mind.

Criss Jami

#30. There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

Edwin Land

#31. Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.

David Neeleman

#32. Perfectionism is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If

Augusten Burroughs

#33. Absurdity and anti - absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Karl Lagerfeld

#34. Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.

Criss Jami

#35. The best way to be original is to not copy anyone.

Sebastyne Young

#36. What heightens ingenuity heightens productivity.
What heightens creativity heightens originality.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#37. 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

#38. Nothing is new except arrangement.

Will Durant

#39. Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different.

Criss Jami

#40. It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

Angela Phillips

#41. 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

#42. The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

Amit Kalantri

#43. 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

#44. I would rather be a real Timex than a fake Rolex.

N.M. Silber

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

Dave Eggers

#46. Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Criss Jami

#47. It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

Michael Foley

#48. Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.

John O'Donohue

#49. If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.

Jonathan Culver

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

Leatrice Eiseman

#51. Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them.

Steven Symes

#52. Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

Arthur Koestler

#53. Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

Alfred North Whitehead

#54. Originality is the best form of rebellion.

Mike Sasso

#55. Stand up.
Stand out.
Stand firm.
Stand strong.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#56. Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.

Alecia Stone

#57. Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.

Adam Grant

#58. What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality

Abraham Eraly

#59. Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.

Gerard Puccio

#60. People who copy you will always be one step behind.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#61. Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Beatrix Potter

#62. Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish.

Criss Jami

#63. 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.

Joel Henry Hildebrand

#64. All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.

Eric Weiner

#65. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois