ORIGINALITY QUOTES IV

quotations about originality

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

EVAN ESAR

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It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

WALLACE STEVENS

Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

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It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

"Anima Hominis", Per Amica Silentia Lunae

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Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.

EVAN MANDERY

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The truly original mind is forever finding new things in the old. The greatest quality of originality is that it perceives something that has been staring all the time into the unseeing eyes of mankind.

ANONYMOUS

"Chasing the Goose Originality", The Linotype Bulletin, November/December 1921


Those who are ambitious of originality, and aim at it, are necessarily led by others, since they seek to be different from them.

R. WHATELY

Thoughts and Apophthegms from the writings of Archbiship Whately


No man knows himself as an original.

CHILO

attributed, Day's Collacon