Top 111 Originality Quotes

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.
Bob Seger
It’s incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.
Ronan Farrow
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Jackie Chan
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
Wes Craven
‘Krampus’ had a certain originality about it, so I jumped on board.
Toni Collette
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.
Leo Burnett
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Georges Seurat
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.
C. S. Lewis
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
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.
Amy Tan
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.
A. R. Rahman
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.
Anthony Fantano
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.
W. Somerset Maugham
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
Franklin P. Jones
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.
George Lois
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.
Bob Seger
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
William Inge
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.
Tyga
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Arthur Koestler
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.
Yann Martel
I think originality is something that’s important and catches people’s eye.
Ella Mai
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are l

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.
M. Night Shyamalan
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton
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.
Thomas Couture
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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!
Joseph Pulitzer
‘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.’
Lexi Alexander
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Georges Seurat
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
William Inge
People believe in my originality more than anything else.
Anu Malik
Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.
Farhan Akhtar
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.
Allen Iverson
Nature is the fountain’s head, the source from whence all originality must spring.
John Constable
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
Mason Cooley
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.
George Lois
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.
Shankar Mahadevan
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould