Originality Quotes - Page 8

I feel like the internet also affects originality a lot, because music is so easily shared nowadays, it seems like artists have collectively explored most of the grounds that music has to offer.

I think true originality is perpetual. It's always rolling along. True originality is not like this award or trophy you get if you do something weird. It's with you if you have it, and it's still rolling along somewhere, you just gotta go find it. It takes time to reach that point, and understand true originality... I think we all can find it.

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

Originality finds the unexpected but inevitable next step.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.

I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay claim to some extraordinary act of originality, truth is I'm only taking advantage of capabilities inherent in everyone.

Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.

My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality.

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality

There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.

There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.