Thursday 28 March 2013

Originality - Quotes

A poor original is better than a good imitation. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others. - Washington Allston

Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well. - Evan Mandery

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur. - Wallace Stevens

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that the time impresses upon our sensibility. - Charles Baudelaire

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. - George Henry Lewes

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. - Voltaire

Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes. - Woodrow Wilson

Originality is the best form of rebellion. - Mike Sasso

Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. - Horst W. Janson

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

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. - Eric Hoffer

The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards. - Arthur Koestler

The painter with an original vision is always opposed by the schools. That is, at first. But when he wins out, then the schools merely take over his technique and use it as a club to put down the next creator. And so it goes. - Horace Holley

The truly original mind is forever finding new things in the old. The greatest quality of originality is that it perceives something that has been staring all the time into the unseeing eyes of mankind. - Unknown

The very best kind of originality is that which comes after a sound apprenticeship: it is that which shall prove to be the blending of a firm conception of all useful precedent and the progressive tendencies of an able mind. - Unknown

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy – at least until we have become as clever as they are. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already. - Jean de La Bruyere

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. - William Ralph Inge

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else? - Arnold Schwarzenegger

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