Originality Quotes

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

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

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

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

Originality is really important.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.

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

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

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

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

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

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 beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

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.