Copying Quotes

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

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.

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly.

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

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

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.

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

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.

If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

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

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

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.

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

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.

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.

Creativity means not copying.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

You cannot innovate by copying.

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

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.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!

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.

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

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.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

To model an object is to possess it.

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.

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.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

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.

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.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?