Quotes about Originality

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

Janelle Monae, she has her own style, and it's specifically hers.

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

Every man is born an original, but sadly, most men die copies.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

The best progressive ideas are those that include a strong enough dose of provocation to make its supporters feel proud of being original, but at the same time attract so many adherents that the risk of being an isolated exception is immediately averted by the noisy approval of the triumphant crowd.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Always be yourself. Express yourself, have faith in yourself. Don't go looking for a successful personality and just duplicate it.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.