“Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.” WayGivingBookDonePaintingRevolutionBirthOriginalsBunchBreadEverlastingJuiceTobaccoCarrots Author:Paul Cezanne
“I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of my creations. Even back in the days with Lady Starlight, my original partner, we aimed to bemuse. This feeling of bemusement - it's neither good nor bad. It just is. Whether critics realize it or not, they've been in a very long argument since my public birth.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLongFactsFeelingsRealizingCreationBirthArgumentOriginalsCriticsPartnersObjectivesThink Of MeStarlight Author:Lady Gaga
“And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was conceived without Original Sin. That's all it has ever meant. And according to the tabloids, Mary is apparently the only one who can make such a claim. The Jesus thing is called virgin birth.” MeanDoeJesusSexSinBirthClaimsOriginalsAbsenceConceptionMaryVirginsTabloidsOriginal SinImmaculateVirgin BirthImmaculate Conception Book:The Best of Brain Droppings Source: The Best of Brain Droppings
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” GivingBeautyBirthSolitudeOppositesOriginalsAbsurdUnfamiliarGregarious Book:Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories Source: Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
“Following 25 children for the TV series 'Child of Our Time' has been extraordinary. The BBC's original plan was to commemorate the new millennium. What better way than to film a number of expectant mums from across the U.K.? Coming from widely different backgrounds, all were due to give birth on January 1, 2000.” WayGivingChildrenHas BeensDifferentFilmNumbersPlansTvsBirthOriginalsSeriesExtraordinaryFollowingDuesBackgroundsOur TimeMumBetter WaysJanuaryMillenniumTv SeriesDifferent BackgroundsJanuary 1 Author:Robert Winston
“Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.” MorningEventsPersonalityBirthFindingsAbsolutesOriginalsOneselfAwakeningProofUnprecedentedSaddlesFinding Oneself Book:Bend Sinister Source: Bend Sinister
“Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.” IfsYearsWholeUniverseSeaBirthSolitudeAll ThingsLonelyOriginalsDistanceSticksSeparationProportionYardsDestinedParticles Author:Ian Caldwell