Quotes about Originality

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

“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.”

“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.”

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

“Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”