Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.
No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.
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.
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.
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.
I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!
I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.
Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.
Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.
Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.
Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.
EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.
The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.
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.
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.
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.
You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
To model an object is to possess it.
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
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.
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.
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