Most of my cliches aren't original.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.
There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject.
If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent. If I can be competent, and have moments of originality, that's all I would ask for.
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.
I think fashion today is horrible. Just open your eyes and look! What's good about it? There's no originality. Here and there, there is, but in general, en masse, there's very little creativity and very little originality. It's kind of boring. Everybody looks alike. Everybody seems to strive to look alike.
It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.
Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
The proponents of Steinitz' theory - Tarrasch and his supporters - tried to express Steinitz' teaching in the form of laconic rules, and as often happens in such cases, they went too far. The laconic tended to become dogmatic, and chess began to lose its freshness, originality and charm.
Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.
I always took a great deal of pride in being original.
Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.
There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.
Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.
Originality provokes originality.