Forge your iron; shape it by force,
not into a flower you already know
but into what can also be a flower
if you think it is and it is so.

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

If you fail in copying from a master you succeed in birthing an original art.

Kushal Poddar, Poet

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.