Top 471 Originality Quotes & Sayings

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

I have always loved originality.

Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality.

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... a by-product of sincerity.

I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived.

I really do not aim at any originality.

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

Originality doesn't consist of saying it first, originality consists of saying it in a way that is specifically tailored to the moment in which you are addressing - and at the moment when the complications arise, challenging the logic of what you're doing.

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Originality is for people with short memories

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

Originality is merely an illusion.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong.

The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch.

Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters.

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other, and they're all slightly different. I don't know if originality is possible. Is it even necessary? Because everything is different than what came before, but it's all branches from the same tree. Originality is overrated, but what you do with things is always different.

I think fashion today is horrible. Just open your eyes and look! What's good about it? There's no originality. Here and there, there is, but in general, en masse, there's very little creativity and very little originality. It's kind of boring. Everybody looks alike. Everybody seems to strive to look alike.

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

Originality is really important.

Originality is going back to origins.

Originality is no excuse for ignorance.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

A good imitation is the most perfect originality

Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

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.

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.

Originality is a return to the origin.

Story is about originality, not duplication

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

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

Music has lost the stamp of originality.

Originality is only variation.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

Originality provokes originality.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

Originality is dangerous.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.