Originality Quotes

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. (Herman Melville)
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. View quote
Edith Wharton
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival. View quote
Coco Chanel
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. View quote
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. View quote
Beatrix Potter
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. View quote
Jean Cocteau
From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique. View quote
Michael Keaton
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. (Thomas Carlyle)
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. View quote
W. H. Auden
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. View quote
Leo Burnett
Do you know the originality of Woody Allen? There is no difference between a Woody-director and a Woody-man. View quote
Scarlett Johansson
Originality is really important. View quote
Jim Carrey
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. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Just keep thinking about the good side of ADD - the creativity and the originality it can stimulate. View quote
David Neeleman
When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. (Steve Lacy)
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. View quote
George Henry Lewes
The modernist thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different. View quote
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality. View quote
Burt Lancaster