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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. -- Clement Greenberg
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. -- Mary Oliver
Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet. -- Mark Nepo
Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously... -- Gerard van der Leeuw
I still have a lot my Disney store art left and if I ever run out I'll just redraw it, because it will still be my original art and as a freelancer I own it. -- Mike Royer
The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing. -- Seth Godin
If I wanted to own some Jack Kirby original art unless it was something that Giacoia or Sinnott had inked I was too close to it. I didn't want to collect his pages inked by me. Of course 40 years later I'd LOVE to have some of that stuff. -- Mike Royer
The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations-more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art. -- Jacob Bronowski
The translation called good has original value as a work of art. -- Benedetto Croce
Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original! -- Thomas Yalden
You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations. -- Suzy Kassem
Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original. -- Lukas Foss
I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. -- Bob Kane
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I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute. -- Helen Vendler
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute. -- Helen Vendler
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience. -- Paul Mellon
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age. -- Anton Ehrenzweig
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation. -- Martin Seligman
Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family. -- Linda Chavez
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal. -- Marcel Proust
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought. -- Albert Pinkham Ryder

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