Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Originality is only variation.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

Repetition is the death of magic.

Originality will be rewarded in any line.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

I think that it was a great advantage to go into photography not knowing much about it. Not thinking. I think one of the problems with many photographers today is that they never see for themselves, but just like everybody else.

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

I had no reason to want to copy anybody else. What I wanted to give audiences for the few minutes that I thought my career would last was something unique.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

What people have to make sure of is that they're not replicating something that already exists. You really have to ask yourself: "Is there a point in me doing this? Has this already been said before? Is this moving things along or is this just adding to the giant pile of junk that's already there?"

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.