Originality Quotes
Originality Quote of the day
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.
Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.
Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.
To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in new directions.
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
