Originality Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

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.

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.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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

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

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

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

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.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

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

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

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

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.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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