Quotes About Originality

Insist upon yourself. Be original. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. – Aaliyah

Originality is the art of concealing your sources. – Benjamin Franklin

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. – Eugene Delacroix

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. – Aesop

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. – Joshua Reynolds

You’ve gotta be original, because if you’re like someone else, what do they need you for? – Bernadette Peters

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. – Unknown

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. – Thomas W. Higginson

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. – Bono

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.” – John Stuart Mill

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. – Mark Twain