Quotes About Originality

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand.

In the days of Prismatic Color not in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there was no smoke and color was fine, not with the refinement of early civilization art, but because of its originality; with nothing to modify it but the mist that went up, obliqueness was a variation of the perpendicular, plain to see and to account for: it is no longer that; nor did the blue-red-yellow band of incandescence that was color keep its stripe

And [she] proceeded to insult ... anyone she happened to remember at the moment, with such power and originality that the soldiers listened in wonder to vituperation that transcended their wildest dream of profanity and filth.

La fuerza y la originalidad con que el fundador del Opus Dei afirma este primado en el orden sobrenatural, es quizá solo comparable a la fuerza y originalidad con que santo Tomás de Aquino había afirmado este primado en el orden natural»[5]

But a man gifted with original thoughts and the power of expressing them, appears to be regarded by everyone in authority as much worse than the worst criminal, and all the 'jacks-in-office' unite to kick him to death if they can.

Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!

I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.

Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.

There is no must in art because art is free.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Creativity is the mystery of freedom.

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.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.