Originality Quotes

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

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

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

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.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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.

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.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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