Quotes About Originality

Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought—even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.

Design is an unknown.

By nature, men love newfangledness.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

Darüber, daß sie nichts zum zweitenmal erfinden wollen, lernen sie alles so ansehen, wie es ihre Vorfahren angesehen haben. Der zweite Fehler ist aber gewiß schlimmer, als der erste.

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

One of the facets of extreme originality is not to regard as obvious the things that lesser minds call obvious,

If you like something of someone else's, why not take it? The important thing is that it seem natural and fit in.

A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for everyday.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

do not act stupid to impress the dopes Be YOURSELF and impress everyone -

As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.

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Art must invent new beauty, not play with what has already been made, religion must invent God and never rest.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required.

no uniformity, but the primitive diversity of a strong mind, untouched and unmolded except by the manifold disorganizations of the universe.