Originality Quotes

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

In order to be irreplacable, one must always be different.

Dare to be what you are and to believe in your own individuality.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

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

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas 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 ever having noticed it.