Quotes about Originality

“I invent nothing, I rediscover.”

“Begin with another's to end with your own.”

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”

“People would rather be wrong than be different.”

“All cases are unique and very similar to others.”

“All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.”

“Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.”

“The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.”

“Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.”

“Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.”

“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”

“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

“It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise.”

“No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.”

“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”

“But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

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

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”

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

“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.”

“When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.”

“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”

“A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.”

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

“When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.”

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”

“ORIGINALITY is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.”

“To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.”

“I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.”

“I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.”