Originality Quotes - Page 6

• Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

  Roy Acuff

  Blueprints, Originals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks original at first.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Years, Ugly, Firsts

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

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Writing, Originals

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". 15th edition, 1980.

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• Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

  H. W. Janson

  Art, Greatness, Crafts

  "History of Art".

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• Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Finding Yourself, Way, Express Yourself

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• The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

  Alexis Korner

  Emotional, Bars, Attention

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• It's certainly going to be different from what people have seen before.

  Donald Lambert

  People, Different

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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. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

  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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• Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

  Robert Henri

  Passion, Worry, Wanted

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

  Raymond Radiguet

  Trying, Funny Basketball, Failing

  Quoted by Jean Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française, October 20, 1955.

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• The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Powerful, Writing, Bad Ass

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

  John G. Shedd

  Inspirational, Echoes, World

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Time, Funny Basketball, Behinds

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Clothes, People, Mind

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• Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

  Edward Carpenter

  Doe, Examination, Great Success

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Differences, Ordinary

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Creativity, Defeat, Habit

  Arthur Koestler, Harold Harris (1975). “Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70”, Not Avail

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• Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

  Ezra Pound

  Courses

  Ezra Pound (1950). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Fall, Men, Eden

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1897). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• No man knows himself as an original.

  Washington Allston

  Men, Knows, Originals

  Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.174, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  Auguste Rodin

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Camille Mauclair (p. 60-61), 1905.

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• The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Learning, Liberty

  The American Mercury Magazine, April 24, 1924.

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• A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Produce, Copiers, Mere

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)

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• Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

  Mason Cooley

  Mistake, Literature, Form

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• Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

  Thomas Couture

  Color, Knowing, Connections

  Thomas Couture (1879). “Conversations on Art Methods”

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