Originality Quotes - Page 5

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

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

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

Most of my cliches aren't original.

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

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

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

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

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

Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.

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

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

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

Story is about originality, not duplication

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

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

There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.