"Originality in art is not a matter of trying to invent new principles but is a matter of creating new modes or mannerisms, based on artistic fundamentals. New principles are only developed during a century or more of time and then only after many minds have evolved the main ideas of such principles... Additionally, major innovations must integrate with the elementary principles of origin and always be based on natural laws. Truth must lie at the foundation of all constructive ideas in art... Often, in our vanity we think we are strictly original in our ideas, when, as a matter of fact, we have only borrowed or built upon thoughts that have been handed down from the past."
Edgar A. Payne
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