#originality

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#been #films #getting #go #i

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. ↗

— Dean Inge

#plagiarism #undetected

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#independence #originality #rebellion #sincerity

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ↗

— Jean Guitton

#differs #divisible #each #every #exists

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#fruits #good #good things #originality #things

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest. ↗

— Mike Norton

#bare #bloom #creative #creativity #cultivate

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. ↗

— Thomas Couture

#colors #connection #consists #expressing #how

A poor original is better than a good imitation. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#imagination #originality #art

We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward. ↗

— Jessica Lave

#artists #creativity #genius #originality #vision

Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower if you think it is and it is so. ↗

— João Cabral de Melo Neto

#iron-forging #originality #poetry #art