Originality Quotes

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.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

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.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

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.

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

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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

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

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

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.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

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

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

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

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 really important.

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

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