As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
W. R. Inge
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
John Stuart Mill
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens
Originality is merely an illusion.
M. C. Escher
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
But we're trying to preserve the antiquity of the machine and maintain its originality, so we're doing it the old-fashioned way.
Pete Burno
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois
Originality is important. The athletes have worked their whole lives for this. They should shine.
Michael Budman
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Georges Seurat
There's no freshness. There's no originality.
Joe Keenan
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
Jackie Chan
Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.
Robin Cousins
They also look for originality.
Chris Koch
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Charles Baudelaire
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
Anthony Storr
The qualities in music I considered most important -- and still do -- were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
Paul Desmond
His originality was apparent from the word go. He deployed an intellectual rigour that turned his droll imagery into icons of our time.
Allen Jones
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
Joseph Brodsky
You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
Andre Leon Talley
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
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