Originality Quotes - Page 4

• I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

  Burt Lancaster

  Trying, Way, New Ways

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• Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Range

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.163, U of Nebraska Press

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• But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Long, Independence, Religion

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Henryk Sienkiewicz (Illustrated)”, p.6150, Delphi Classics

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• It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Perfect, Matter, Indifference

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.331, Courier Corporation

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• In art, new ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling; you can't divorce the two, as, we are now aware, you cannot have time without space and space without time.

  David Hockney

  Art, Mean, Divorce

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• A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

  Walter Pater

  Art, Elements, Blossoming

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

  Amy Tan

  Clever, Writing, Voice

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Dream, Artist, Men

  Albert Pinkham Ryder (1961). “Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961”

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• Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Greatness, Watches

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].”, p.103

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• The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Giving, Vision, Interest

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• Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path.

  Max Ehrmann

  World, Path, Clamor

  Max Ehrmann, “'A Prayer'”

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• All has not been said and never will be.

  Samuel Beckett

  Said

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• I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.

  Julia Roberts

  Romantic Love, Different, Watches

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• Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

  Coco Chanel

  Memories, Original Thought, Brilliant

  "Readers recommend: songs that sample, recycle and reinvent" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2014.

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• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.

  Edith Wharton

  Wealth Of Knowledge, Long, Mind

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• Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Artist, Way, Needs

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• You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Trying, Born, Copies

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• If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

  Ken Robinson

  Failure, Creativity, Prepared

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• Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Different, Traps

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• Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

  Jim Jarmusch

  Soul, Bodies Of Water, Film Music

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• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspiration, Stealing Things, Imagination

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• Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Home, Trying, Places To Go

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Believe, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

  John Cleese

  Long, Giving, Mind

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• There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.

  John Zachary Young

  People, Matter, Artistic

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