Quotes about Originality

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.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it.

If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this?

When you just copy and paste, you miss that. You just repurpose the last layer instead of understanding all the layers underneath.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stenciled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May?

It seems so to me, said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought.

Undine was fiercely independent and yet passionately imitative. She wanted to surprise every one by her dash and originality, but she could not help modelling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.