Originality proverbs

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◆ Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

- Frank Zappa99

◆ An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

- Stephen Fry99

◆ All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

- Coco Chanel99

◆ Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

- T.S. Eliot99

◆ You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

- Andy Warhol99

◆ Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

- Mary Shelley99

◆ There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

- Marie Antoinette99

◆ A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

- Dorothy L. Sayers99

◆ Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

- Criss Jami99

◆ The unique must be fulfilled.

- Martha Graham99

◆ Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.

- Nancy Springer99

◆ Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

- Karl Lagerfeld99