Quotes about Originality

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We each have to say it, to say it our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes out through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die.

I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.

Creativity has got to start with humanity.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.