Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
Lukas Foss

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Charles Baudelaire

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
Thomas Harrison

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.
Raymond Radiguet

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Georges Seurat

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
James Stephens

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
Jean Guitton

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
Anthony Storr

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
George Henry Lewes

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire

Originality is really important.
Jim Carrey

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Thomas W. Higginson

Originality is the art of concealing your source.
Franklin P. Jones

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Nnamdi Azikiwe

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
John Stuart Mill

Originality is undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.
Douglas Wood