True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.