Originality Quotes

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

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

Originality is a return to the origin.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

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

Originality is going back to origins.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.

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

Originality is merely an illusion.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

I'm not like anyone. I'm me.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

Originality is for people with short memories

Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.

Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed.

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

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path.

I really do not aim at any originality.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Imitations only better the original.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Credentials have been a problem for a long time in my work. Originality has been my strength, and credentials and academia have not been.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

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

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

A poor original is better than a good imitation.