Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.
Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.
U2 is an original species. . . there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.
It's certainly going to be different from what people have seen before.
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.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.
The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.
Originality is the art of concealing your sources.