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Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else --and failing.
Raymond Radiguet
It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, Don't play like me, play like you.
Eric Clapton
Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
Eric Hoffer
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
David Packer
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain
As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
Robert Bresson
The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.
Blaise Pascal
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
Clement Greenberg
No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.
Henry Miller
