Originality Quotes - Page 18

• I think fashion today is horrible. Just open your eyes and look! What's good about it? There's no originality. Here and there, there is, but in general, en masse, there's very little creativity and very little originality. It's kind of boring. Everybody looks alike. Everybody seems to strive to look alike.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Eye, Creativity

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think it speaks to the fact that other people are as excited about originality as we are. I think the thing that has been wonderfully communicated in the trailers and all the promotion for the movie [Swiss Army Man] is that it isn't like anything else you've ever seen, and we're not just saying that. I think that excites people.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Army, Men, Thinking

  "Daniel Radcliffe & Paul Dano On The Taboo Nature Of Swiss Army Man". Interview With Kristy Puchko, screenrant.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I'm less interested in uniqueness than in goodness. I see so many concerts where the program notes are more interesting than the music. I remember talking to one composer who went through the most complicated mathematical algorithm to generate some material from scratch. It took weeks and weeks, and he came up with a C major chord. For me, honesty is more interesting than originality.

  Anna Meredith

  Honesty, Talking, Interesting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters.

  Paul Fry

  Doubt, Care, Matter

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters.

  Paul Fry

  Matter, Granted

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.

  James Hunter

  Views, Personality, Investing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking in any sense of originality in media. So, I think the people who want something like this which has a graphic novel feel or comic book feel but that is designed and created for the medium of television, I think that is something is very appealing to a lot of people.

  Miles Millar

  Book, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

  Adam Grant

  People, Suggestions, Target

  "Give & Take with Adam Grant, Top Contrarian Self-Help Expert". Interview with Marty Nemko, www.psychologytoday.com. December 31, 2015.

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• Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.

  Barbara Sher

  Genius, Care, Ifs

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• The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means 'originality': The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising

  David Ogilvy

  Mean, Creativity, Agency

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• People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.

  Joe Biden

  Mother, Expression, People

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Numbers, People, Progress

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• I think true originality is perpetual. It's always rolling along. True originality is not like this award or trophy you get if you do something weird. It's with you if you have it, and it's still rolling along somewhere, you just gotta go find it. It takes time to reach that point, and understand true originality... I think we all can find it.

  Mr. Carmack

  Thinking, Take Time, It Takes Time

  "Upfront: Mr. Carmack". Interview with Georgia Sheales, acclaimmag.com.

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• My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.

  Lucy Simon

  Advice, Female, Easy

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're constantly trying to overcome, the curiosities and the ignorances of the people we seek to help.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Ignorance, Heart, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Originality doesn't consist of saying it first, originality consists of saying it in a way that is specifically tailored to the moment in which you are addressing - and at the moment when the complications arise, challenging the logic of what you're doing.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Challenges, Firsts, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's really good not to get published. It sounds crazy but it's true. People want to get published very soon, but the moment that happens, you lose a bit of your originality. Once you publish, you are always doing things made-to-order. You stop being a weaver and become a tailor. You are tailoring things to suit other people's fashion.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Fashion, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other, and they're all slightly different. I don't know if originality is possible. Is it even necessary? Because everything is different than what came before, but it's all branches from the same tree. Originality is overrated, but what you do with things is always different.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Ocean, Tree, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

  George Saunders

  Believe, Persistence, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done.

  Nick Damici

  Ideas, Done, Way

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from our throats," to borrow Ralph Waldo Emerson's parody of elite fears that inspired early advocates of public mass education.

  Noam Chomsky

  Needs, Inspired, Waldo Emerson

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• For my part, it is difficult for me to say what I owe to Ramanujan - his originality has been a constant source of suggestion to me ever since I knew him, and his death is one of the worst blows I have ever had.

  G. H. Hardy

  Blow, Suggestions, Ramanujan

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• Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence... are undermined.

  Douglas Crimp

  Art, Technology, Creating

  Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler (1995). “On the Museum's Ruins”, p.58, MIT Press

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• By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression.

  Rosalind E. Krauss

  Photography, Art, Self

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• I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.

  Stendhal

  Clever, People, Energy

  Stendhal (2015). “Armance”, p.72, Booklassic

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