originative

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The originative intellectual worker is not a normal human being and does not lead nor desire to lead a normal human life.

From Time Magazine Archive

Imagination, in other words, is not strictly originative, but, rather, appropriative, giving a varied placing to images on hand, just as the kaleidoscope makes all its multiform combinations with a given number of pieces.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)

So far as man stands for anything, and is productive or originative at all, his entire vital function may be said to have to deal with maybes.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

Watts’s power, on the other hand, lies in his great originative and imaginative genius, and he reminds us of Æschylus or Michael Angelo in the startling vividness of his conceptions. 

From Miscellanies by Ross, Robert

Behrens was one of those vividly clever energetic people who are the despair of originative men.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)