Quotes about Copying

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. Votes: 5

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. Votes: 5

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. Votes: 5

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. Votes: 5

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 4

Copying is about reverse-engineering. Votes: 3

Copying is the highest form of flattery Votes: 3

If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. Votes: 3

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. Votes: 3

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research. Votes: 3

You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate. Votes: 3

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. Votes: 3

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying. Votes: 3

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore. Votes: 3

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path? Votes: 3

Copying isn't particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work. Votes: 3

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product. Votes: 3

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free. Votes: 3

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,. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

You can't make experimental work by copying past work. Votes: 2

Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Creativity means not copying. Votes: 0

You cannot innovate by copying. Votes: 0

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation Votes: 0

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow. Votes: 0

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too Votes: 0

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly. Votes: 0

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Votes: 0

If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right! Votes: 0

A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee. Votes: 0

When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening. Votes: 0

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes Votes: 0

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. Votes: 0

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it. Votes: 0

You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them. Votes: 0

I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing! Votes: 0

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed! Votes: 0

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing. Votes: 0

Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that. Votes: 0

Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995. Votes: 0

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. Votes: 0

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority. Votes: 0

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. Votes: 0

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out. Votes: 0

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb. Votes: 0

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not. Votes: 0

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself. Votes: 0

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not. Votes: 0

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums. Votes: 0

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own. Votes: 0

Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me. Votes: 0

We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves. Votes: 0

Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else. Votes: 0

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object. Votes: 0

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. Votes: 0

I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation Votes: 0

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon. Votes: 0

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater. Votes: 0

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. Votes: 0

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same. Votes: 0

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. Votes: 0

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written. Votes: 0

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings. Votes: 0

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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"? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality. It is better to look, look again, and keep on looking. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0