Originality Quotes

"As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."
-Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
-W. R. Inge

"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
-John Stuart Mill

"Since there are only a few original people in the world, there is more uniformity than one might expect, in view of the large number who think they have something to say."
-Leo Stein

"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself."
-James Stephens

"Originality is merely an illusion."
-M. C. Escher

"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."
-Josh Billings

"But we're trying to preserve the antiquity of the machine and maintain its originality, so we're doing it the old-fashioned way."
-Pete Burno

"Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about."
-W. H. Auden

"Originality is important. The athletes have worked their whole lives for this. They should shine."
-Michael Budman

"Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist."
-Georges Seurat

"There's no freshness. There's no originality."
-Joe Keenan

"ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi."
-Alan Alda

"Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had."
-Robin Cousins

"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality."
-Jackie Chan

"They also look for originality."
-Chris Koch

"Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar."
-Nnamdi Azikiwe

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

"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
-Arthur Koestler

"Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms."
-Anthony Storr

"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."
-Edith Wharton

"The qualities in music I considered most important -- and still do -- were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity."
-Paul Desmond

"His originality was apparent from the word go. He deployed an intellectual rigour that turned his droll imagery into icons of our time."
-Allen Jones

"The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with."
-Joseph Brodsky

"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality."
-Beatrix Potter

"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism."
-Dean Inge

"You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful."
-Andre Leon Talley

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."
-Laurence J. Peter