Originality Quotes

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

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

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.

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.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.