#originality

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Originality is really important. ↗

— Jim Carrey

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

— Edith Wharton

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Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script. ↗

— Douglas Wood

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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

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When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now. ↗

— Steve Lacy

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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. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. ↗

— Thomas Couture

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A poor original is better than a good imitation. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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