Copying Quotes

You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.

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,.

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.

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

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

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.

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

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.

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

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

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

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

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.

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

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.

Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.

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.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

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.

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.

Copying is about reverse-engineering.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice. I have the advantage of being a writer of English as a second language.

...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.

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

[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.

Some of the bigger companies seem to be copying only to make money, which creatively is very bad. I sometimes wonder if they have any respect.

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!

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.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.

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"?

A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.

The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit.

You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.

People who copy you will always be one step behind.