The phrase "original genius" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has a unique and innovative creative ability or talent.
Example: "The artist was celebrated for her original genius, which set her apart from her contemporaries."
Alternatives: "creative brilliance" or "innovative talent".
Chopin, the most original genius of the 19th century, is a good example.
It all reminds me of the original genius of this kind of retailing.
Subsequent tests employed slight tweaks but the original genius (and the heroic volume) of her recipe remained fundamentally the same.
The canvas on which you have someone in Bangladesh stencil "this is not a work of original genius" will be "authenticated" as a work of original genius, and probably turn out to be more valuable than the Bangladeshi economy as a whole.
Copying, Fat argues, was always an essential part of architecture, and the myth of the utterly original genius is therefore suspect.
The novel was adapted for the stage as early as 1822 and Walter Scott saluted "the author's original genius and happy power of expression".
The picture books of Sendak, perhaps one of the few original geniuses in his restricted field, were assailed by many adults as frightening or abnormal.
The unwary, watching the later stages of Ornette Coleman's performance - with its tabla players, Chinese fiddles, Persian sufi vocalists and opera singers - might have been surprised to learn that he is sometimes considered to be one of the most original geniuses of that simple song, the blues.
A superb recreation of original, youthful genius.
Compressing and pulling apart tracks like "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' " doesn't exactly improve them, but it does spotlight their original rhythmic genius.
When Syd Barratt, Pink Floyd's original guiding genius, retreated inside his head for the rest of his life, the band gradually mutated from peddlers of cult psychedelia to global superstars.
