Words matter. These are the best Originality Quotes from famous people such as Thomas Carlyle, Charles Baudelaire, Thomas Couture, John Stuart Mill, Conan O’Brien, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Knowing how to paint and to use one’s colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
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.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD – the creativity and the originality it can stimulate.
When you’re making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime… it’s going to lack originality and creativity, so I try to get my inspiration from different genres.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day.
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.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it’s so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
Knowledge comes from the past, so it’s safe. It is also out of date. It’s the opposite of originality… Experience is the opposite of being creative.
The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day.
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Knowledge comes from the past, so it’s safe. It is also out of date. It’s the opposite of originality… Experience is the opposite of being creative.
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.
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.
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.
Anytime there’s originality and comedy combined, it’s very potent for people who love comedy.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it’s important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
Thankfully, as much as Hollywood is interested in brands, I think people are still looking for originality and freshness.
I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.
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.
If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
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 principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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.
Music has lost the stamp of originality.
I don’t think I’ve ever made a claim to startling originality.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
I think it’s a great document of John Stevens’ originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it’s pretty obvious.
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
I respond to authenticity and originality, and I’ve been a fan of Don Winslow’s ever since ‘The Power Of The Dog.’
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.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
James Corden is a rare entertainment force who combines irresistible charm, warmth, and originality with a diverse range of creative instincts and performance talent.
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
I’m someone who speaks my mind, so it was important to me that my publisher value originality and creative expression.
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
I think originality is something that’s important and catches people’s eye.
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
I have always loved originality.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
As a young artist, especially in rap and at that time that I came out, originality was big.
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.
Be original. That’s my best advice. You’re going to find that there’s something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don’t skimp on the words. Work on the words.
It’s incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Looking back now, if I went to film school, it probably would have helped knowing what the best of the best of foreign films were, but that wasn’t the case. In some ways, I think that led to my originality, because I hadn’t seen anybody else.
‘Krampus’ had a certain originality about it, so I jumped on board.
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.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
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.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn’t realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
Girls’ strength lies in its diversity, and its members have walked in a lot of borrowed shoes to make it that way. ‘Solitude’ is a bold and sweet example of inspiration trumping originality.
The world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
Be original. That’s my best advice. You’re going to find that there’s something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don’t skimp on the words. Work on the words.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
There’s not a lot of pretty, young female artists that’s out. It’s a lot of talent out there, but they don’t know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is – more originality.
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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.
I think originality is something that’s important and catches people’s eye.
I offer originality: you don’t know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that’s the reason I’ve been getting all this attention.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Knowing how to paint and to use one’s colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
‘Deadpool’ is massively successful because they made a very unique movie. That uniqueness and originality, try to imitate that. Not, ‘How about let’s try to do ‘Deadpool’ on a train.’
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
People believe in my originality more than anything else.
Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.
I don’t have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That’s the way it’s supposed to be, man.
Nature is the fountain’s head, the source from whence all originality must spring.
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.
There are so many factors that one needs to keep in mind while composing for a film. Every movie is different and demands a separate approach. Originality also plays an important role.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
