Beginning Quote by Xun Kuang

We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only…

— Man Ray

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out…

— George Gershwin

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

— Man Ray

“You can basically compare the pattern of just about anything that you can think of that has been made by humans to things that…

— Calvin W. Allison

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

— Gertrude Stein

“human is a self-made nature”

— Abhinav Garg

If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort,…

— Xun Kuang

I actually believe that a lot of what people call originality has to do with persistence in the craft.

— George Saunders

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest…

— Albrecht Durer

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

— Julia Cameron

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

— Eric Hoffer