Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

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."

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.

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

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.