Top 38 What Is Originality Quotes
#1. What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly ... timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.
Brandon Sanderson
#5. An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.
Oscar Wilde
#6. 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
#7. One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.
Robin Meade
#8. 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.
Ron Perlman
#9. Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.
Avicii
#10. 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.
Kenneth Turan
#11. Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.
Stephen Dunn
#12. 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
#13. Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
Arthur Helps
#14. Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.
H. W. Janson
#16. Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken.
Marion Woodman
#17. Forge your iron; shape it by force,
not into a flower you already know
but into what can also be a flower
if you think it is and it is so.
Joao Cabral De Melo Neto
#18. The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.
David Salle
#19. What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#20. 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.
Marilyn Manson
#21. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
Daniel Webster
#22. It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
Saul Bellow
#23. Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Arthur Koestler
#30. The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other "greats" and who can transform it in an original manner.
Martin Heidegger
#31. 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.
Joseph Pulitzer
#32. The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#33. What we call originality is no more than ignorance of antecedents.
Dee Hock
#34. 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.
W. Somerset Maugham
#35. Creativity sparks originality which then manifests itself into what we call evolution. To depreciate imagination is to depreciate life.
Alecia Stone
#36. To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
Remy De Gourmont
#37. What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
George Bernard Shaw
#38. For my part, it is difficult for me to say what I owe to Ramanujan - his originality has been a constant source of suggestion to me ever since I knew him, and his death is one of the worst blows I have ever had.
G.H. Hardy
