Originality Quotes
30 quotations about Originality
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
All cases are unique and very similar to others.
Begin with another's to end with your own.
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
People would rather be wrong than be different.
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
I invent nothing, I rediscover.
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
Authors on Originality
Aesop
Alan Alda
Charles Baudelaire
Tony Bennett
Jorge Luis Borges
Robert Bresson
Jean Cocteau
De Chateaubriand
T. S. Eliot
Baltasar Gracian
Clement Greenberg
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Henry Jacobsen
Patrick Kavanagh
Arthur Koestler
Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
Andre Maurois
Herman Melville
John Stuart Mill
David Packer