Originality Quotes

Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

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

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for 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 of my cliches aren't original.

Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.

He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.

There is nothing new under the sun.

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.

Dedication to quality, community, and originality without exception.

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

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

It's certainly going to be different from what people have seen before.

There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject.

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.

It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

I sang a song in Hindi; nobody even knew what that was. Singing about Native American issues, nobody did that... I had no reason to want to copy anybody else... All I had was my originality.

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

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.

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

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique.

Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly.

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

Story is about originality, not duplication