Originality Quotes - Page 7

Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when he unleashes his extraordinary powers of observation.

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

Doing drugs is like anything else - predicated on taste, refinement, dignity, distinction, and originality. Cocaine is not cool, because it makes people act cartoonishly fiendish, and that is undignified.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.

You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

Derivative writers seem versatile because they imitate many others, past and present. Artistic originality has only itself to copy.

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

That was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.

I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from our throats," to borrow Ralph Waldo Emerson's parody of elite fears that inspired early advocates of public mass education.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.