Originality Quotes - Page 7

• You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?

  Bernadette Peters

  Inspirational, Positivity, Needs

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• People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Talking, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.160, Ravenio Books

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• Creativity can solve almost any problem.

  George Lois

  Creativity, Problem, Habit

  George Lois (2008). “George Lois on His Creation of the Big Idea”, Editions Assouline

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• Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

  Khalil Gibran

  Laughing, Sin, Should

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• All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Work, Looks

  Thierry de Duve, Clement Greenberg (1996). “Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Previously Unpublished Debate with Clement Greenberg”, Dis Voir Editions

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• We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Clever, Crazy, Work

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 97, 1799.

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• The original is unfaithful to the translation.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Unfaithful, Translate, Translations

  Sobre el "Vathek"de William Beckford (1943) in Obras Completas (1974) p. 730

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• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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

  Andre Maurois

  Work, Doe, Eccentricity

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• The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Said, Know How

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• An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

  Jean Cocteau

  Artist, Order, Original Art

  "Le Coq et l'Arlequin". Essay by Jean Cocteau, 1918.

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• Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Memories, Men, Failing

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• Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Unfamiliar, Amount

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Originality is undetected plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Plagiarism

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• What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Book, Beer

  Notebook, 2 July 1867

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

  Jackie Chan

  Technology, Culture, Cinema

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2014

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• Originality is really important.

  Jim Carrey

  Important

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• The best way to be original is to be yourself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Being Yourself, Way, Best Way

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 20, 2014

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  Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

  Marianne Moore

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Individuality

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• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  Salvador Dali

  Clever, Flower, Men

  Preface to Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1968)

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• Story is about originality, not duplication

  Robert McKee

  Stories, Duplication

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

  Herman Melville

  Greatness, Men, Tests

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1775, e-artnow

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• Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Commonplace

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

  Coco Chanel

  Art, Creativity, Source

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