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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. -- Paul Cezanne
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. -- Sebastian Bach
It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. -- Steve Guttenberg
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. -- Alberto Giacometti
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. -- Charlie Watts
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. -- Boris Pasternak
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying. -- Hugh Hopper
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others. -- Nathalie Sarraute
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. -- Quentin Crisp
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. -- Betty Friedan
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances. -- Lee Ann Womack
Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools. -- Tony Buzan
Copying is about reverse-engineering. -- Austin Kleon
Copying is the highest form of flattery -- Tito Sotto
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. -- Yogi Berra
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. -- Michelangelo
Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research. -- Chet Atkins
You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate. -- Damien Hirst
Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. -- Jennifer Young
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying. -- John Sebastian
Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore. -- Lexi Alexander
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path? -- Theodore Gericault
Copying isn't particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work. -- Shia LaBeouf
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product. -- Philippe Starck
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free. -- Richard Stallman
Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to be on The Apprentice,. -- Donald Trump
It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated. -- Steve Jobs
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia -- Tracy Kidder
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive. -- Mark Twain
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect, but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure. -- John James Audubon
Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where is the spirit? Seek it in your everyday experience, and therein lies abundance of proof for all you need. -- D.T. Suzuki
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument. -- Bill Frisell
In the '50s, to appropriate was a real no-no. However, once you go from Duchamp to Jasper Johns to Warhol, appropriation becomes not only a common thing to do, but possibly the central way of working in the era we call postmodernism. -- Irving Sandler
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 definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction. -- Walter J. Phillips
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake. -- Gustave Courbet
You can't make experimental work by copying past work. -- Trey Parker
Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time. -- Charles Duhigg
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. -- Athanasius
It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things. -- Niall Ferguson
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. -- Lawrence Lessig
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city. -- Janine Benyus
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. -- V. S. Naipaul
It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it? -- Edward Felten
It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years. -- Michael Morpurgo
When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating. -- Jack White
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version. -- Richard Dawkins
Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have. -- Spencer Wells
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. -- J. G. Ballard
Creativity means not copying. -- Ferran Adria
You cannot innovate by copying. -- Larry Ellison
Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation -- Thomas Gainsborough
Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow. -- Paul Sloane
It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too -- Paul Cezanne
The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly. -- Yoko Ono
I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. -- Bill Frisell
If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right! -- Jay Baer
A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee. -- Oliver $
When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening. -- James Hetfield
They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes -- Jimi Hendrix
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. -- David Boies
I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it. -- Georges Braque
You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them. -- Michael Craig-Martin
I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing! -- Michael Angelo Batio
I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed! -- Karl Lagerfeld
You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing. -- Peter Thiel
Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that. -- Seth Godin
Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995. -- Jakob Nielsen
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. -- Joe Pass
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out. -- Robin Trower
I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb. -- Laurie Simmons
I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not. -- Aidan Turner
Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself. -- Yohji Yamamoto
The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not. -- Tite Kubo
Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums. -- Igor Babailov
My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own. -- Claes Oldenburg
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. -- Paul Theroux
We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves. -- Donatella Versace
Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else. -- Iris Apfel
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object. -- Frederick Franck
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. -- Harvey Dunn
I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation -- Vincent Van Gogh
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. -- Idries Shah
We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater. -- lecrae
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same. -- Lana Del Rey
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. -- Francis Crick
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written. -- Walter Benjamin
There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings. -- Kehinde Wiley
I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead. -- Cindy Sherman
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading. -- Ellsworth Kelly
The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others. -- Seth Godin
[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776. -- Gordon S. Wood
Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity. -- Francois Englert
Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols. -- John Dyer Baizley
Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. -- Athanasius
Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models. -- Ruben Blades
...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural... fancy machine. -- George W. Bush
Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying. -- Christopher Willard
I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart. -- John Fowles
Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly. -- S. Jay Olshansky
When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters. -- Cennino Cennini
There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase. -- Walter J. Phillips
Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie -- Barney Kessel
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence. -- Paul Gauguin
If we go around clearing up our own mess and being positive about our own lifestyle, other people will start copying us and picking up their own carbon 'litter' too -- Dave Hampton
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. -- Tracy Kidder
It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent. -- Kate Beckinsale
Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals. -- Vivienne Westwood
I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life. -- Alan Furst
I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it. -- Henri Matisse
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.From within, I couldn't decide what to do.Unable to see, I heard my name being called.Then I walked outside. -- Rumi
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves. -- Soren Kierkegaard
With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent. -- Janet Edwards
The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you. -- Joshua Reynolds
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal. -- Suzanne Fields
I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"? -- Petra Haden
Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it. -- Alexis Taylor

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