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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Conan O'Brien

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Dean William R. Inge

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

Edith Wharton

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Edmund Burke

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Eleanor Roosevelt

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

Eric Clapton

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

Eric Hoffer

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Ezra Pound

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Francois Rene De Chateaubriand

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Franklin P. Jones

Things good in themselves . . . perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Freya Stark

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

Georg Simmel

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

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Antonyms: deficient, imperfect

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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

Clement Greenberg

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Conan O'Brien

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Dean William R. Inge

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

Edith Wharton

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Edmund Burke

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

Eleanor Roosevelt

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Eric Clapton

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

Eric Hoffer

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

Euripides

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

Ezra Pound

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Francois Rene De Chateaubriand

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Franklin P. Jones

Things good in themselves . . . perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Freya Stark

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

G. C. Lichtenberg

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

Georg Simmel

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

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