Best Original Art Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are a sum of our unique, individual life experiences. The trials we have faced, the causes we fight for, the fears that haunt us, the oddities of our minds; all of these and more become the food for our spirit. The universe does not need repetition from the past; another pretty, but pointless reclining nude, sunlit but stale impressionist landscape, or old and cold minimalist cube. It needs YOU. It needs you to strip away all that clouds your genuine sense of self. It needs you to unearth and unabashedly OWN your messy honest, and magnificent truth. And it needs you to deepen and shape that truth into an authentic core, one that will nourish you and your work for a lifetime.”

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Book:Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice

Source: Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice

“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.”

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Author:Jacob Bronowski

“I remember on a Friday afternoon getting a phone call from Grant Simmons saying, "Mike," we got to be pretty good friends; "Mike, the Sheriff is closing us down on Monday. If you'd like to drive into the studio tomorrow morning, you can have anything you want." So rather than go in and take home piles and piles of cels of Spider-Man what did I take home? Two pages of original art that got sent out to the west coast. Now of course if I'd have taken all the rest of that stuff home I could probably have retired a lot earlier.”

“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.”

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Author:Mike Royer

“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.”

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Author:Mike Royer

“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.”

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Author:Mark Nepo

“Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.”

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Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“Right before I went to Pacifica, I had written and performed a one-woman show and I consider that to be my original art form. Spaulding Grey and Karen Finley and other spoken word artists and performance artists really very much interested me, that art form.”

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Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall

“I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

Source: Virtue and Vice: A Dictionary of the Good Life

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

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Author:Pablo Picasso

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.”

“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”

Source: Picasso: style and meaning

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”

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Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”

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Author:Pablo Picasso

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”

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Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.”

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Author:Jean Cocteau

“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.”

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Author:Gerard van der Leeuw

“Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.”

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Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.”

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Book:Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Previously Unpublished Debate with Clement Greenberg

Source: Clement Greenberg Between the Lines: Including a Previously Unpublished Debate with Clement Greenberg

“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.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.”