Originality Quotes - Page 6

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

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?

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

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

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.

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

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule.

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.

No man knows himself as an original.

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

Originality provokes originality.

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.

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.