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The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to… — Mervyn Peake
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten… — Marion Milner
The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone… — Larry Ellison
Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain. — Steve Fossett
Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin. — David Milch
I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description… — Charles Mingus
Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil — David Ricardo
If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary… — Gerhard Richter
My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have… — Ai Weiwei
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying… — Carol Ann Duffy
If you're lucky enough to use something you see in a dream, it is purely original. It's not in the world - it's in your… — Alexander McQueen
I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13. — Vernon L. Smith
Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but… — Walter J. Phillips
The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the… — Lars von Trier
The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm. You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly takes off. You have no time… — Frans de Waal
Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads… — Julian Simon
If you train yourself in memory work, you fearlessly attack and rearrange your material, for you can retain your original impression. — John F. Carlson
In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation. A jazz musician, if he plays someone else's song, has… — Todd Boyd
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… — Anton Ehrenzweig
Many years ago, Clement Greenberg said, 'All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.' This should be updated now to 'All profoundly ugly work looks… — Walter Darby Bannard
Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook. — Walter Darby Bannard
The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions. — Walter Darby Bannard
It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters. — E. J. Hughes

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