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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.
Augusto Roa Bastos
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Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.
Yohji Yamamoto
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I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.
Philippe Starck
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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
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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.
Johannes Brahms
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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
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We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.
LeCrae
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne
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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.
Hsu Yun
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When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.
James Hetfield
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My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.
Claes Oldenburg
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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
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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
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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.
Frank Gehry
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Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.
Chet Atkins
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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
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If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!
Jay Baer
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The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
David Boies
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They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes
Jimi Hendrix
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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
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I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.
Joe Pass
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.
Tite Kubo
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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
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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
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Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.
Shia LaBeouf
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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
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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.
Wayne Thiebaud
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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
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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
Alberto Giacometti
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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
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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
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Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
Sebastian Bach
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The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.
Winston Churchill
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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
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Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Tito Sotto
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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
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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.
Joshua Reynolds
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Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
Theodore Gericault
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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
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The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.
Stella Adler
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
Damien Hirst
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Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.
Jennifer Young
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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