Originality Quotes

• Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.

  

  Alphonse Daudet
  • Pain
  • Originality
  • Sufferer

• It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Sometimes
  • Location
  • Mississippi

• The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

  

  Paul Desmond
  • Music
  • Simplicity
  • Sincerity

• In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

  

  Nolan Gould
  • World
  • Should
  • Persons

• Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

  

  Charles Phillips
  • Throne
  • Grand
  • Hermit

• Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Men
  • Lies
  • Repeat

• It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Passion

• For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.

  

  Gail Levin
  • Intelligence
  • Source
  • Endless

• As a performer, I would say a drag queen that is performing and not knowing her words; as well as a drag queen that is lacking originality.

  

  Jorge Luis Flores Sanchez
  • Performing
  • Drag
  • Originality

• Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Eye
  • Originality
  • Pairs

• Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Problem
  • Virtue

• Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.

  

  Emmanuel Levinas
  • Desire
  • Excellence
  • Possibility

• To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?

  

  Remy de Gourmont
  • Style
  • Write
  • Memory

• The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • World
  • Originality

• Originality provokes originality.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Originality
  • Provokes

• Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

  

  Georges Seurat
  • Character
  • Artist
  • Originality

• In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Speculation

• Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

  

  Michael O'Brien
  • Humans
  • Decoration
  • Ingenious

• The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

  

  Nikolai Berdyaev
  • Consciousness
  • Source
  • Originality

• Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Fashion
  • Originality
  • Carnival

• 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
  • Idea
  • Originality
  • Intentional

• It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Different
  • Mean
  • Common

• Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.

  

  Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • Creativity
  • Originality
  • Scholar

• Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Genius
  • Poet
  • Poetic

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