Imitations only better the original.
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.
Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and observations which are contributed by the talkers.
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality. . . in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.
Story is about originality, not duplication
Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.
There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject.
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
It takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.
I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
Nothing is new except arrangement.
Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed.
The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. . . . Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a "wholesome personality" are inevitably their own.
Originality cannot be a goal. It is simply inevitable. The truly pathbreaking step can never be predicted, and certainly not by the person who makes it at the time he makes it. He clears as he goes, evolves his own techniques, devises his own tools, ignores where he must. And his path cannot be retraced, because each of us is an original being.