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“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

“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