57 Originality Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Vision Consists True New Manner Originality

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville

Better Imitation Fail Than Succeed Originality

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis

Truth Art You Man Be Original Try Will Become Before Nine Caring Out Tell Has-Been About Ten Having Bothers Simply Without How Been Times Often Whereas Literature Noticed Who Original Even Originality Ever

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. Conan O'Brien

You Disappointment Beauty Conviction Clarity Through True Gain Originality

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

Rebellion Independence Sincerity Antagonism Originality

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. John Stuart Mill

Good Good Things Exist Fruits Which Originality Things

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! Joseph Pulitzer

Good Needs News Satire Humor Power Clever Style Headlines Editorial Accuracy Literary Newspaper Page Descriptive Originality

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

Nothing Imitation Borrowed Writers Most Another Judicious Original Originality

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

Merit Sincerity Novelty Originality

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at. Marilyn Manson

Buy People Burden Sit Laugh Tell TV Rather Like Supposed Most Accept Front Want Them Originality

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

Minds One Thing Feel The One Thing Cannot Which Use Originality Thing

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world. Kenneth Branagh

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

Rule Shallow Am Very Where Conventional Depth Originality Wasted Careful

Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is. Avicii

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

School Goodness Would Some Never Off Thank Thank Goodness Sent Originality

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

Time Our Sensibility Stamp Originality Nearly

Originality is really important. Jim Carrey

Important Really Originality

If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time. Octavio Paz

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Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve. W. H. Davies

Good Invention Starve Others Resource Fraternity High Attain Fail Make Enable Beggars America Often Ends Where Natives Esteem Succeed Them Held Originality Tongue

Originality is undetected plagiarism. William Inge

Plagiarism Originality

The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing. A. R. Rahman

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