Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.
Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality
You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.
It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.
After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
U2 is an original species. . . there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're constantly trying to overcome, the curiosities and the ignorances of the people we seek to help.
Originality is no excuse for ignorance.
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.
The glass I drink from is not large, but at least it is my own.
Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.