Copying Quotes

• 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.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Success, Congratulations, Thinking

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• Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

  Michelangelo

  Copies

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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

  Writing, Might, Painting

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

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Painting, Realizing

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  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

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• 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.

  Cennino Cennini

  Pain, Hands, Drawing

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• 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.

  Hugh Hopper

  Art, Thinking, People

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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

  Firsts, Sun, Painter

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.95, Routledge

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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

  Mind, Looks, States

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• If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.

  Yogi Berra

  Motivational, Magic, Coaching

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jay Baer

  Social Media, Competitors, Ifs

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

  John Sebastian

  Musician, Knows

  Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.

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

  Steve Guttenberg

  Machines, Comedy, Xerox

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• 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.

  Irving Sandler

  Real, Way, Eras

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

  Charlie Watts

  Kids, Play, People

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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

  Real, Artist, Skid Row

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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

  Reality, Chairs, Interest

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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

  Years, Together, Path

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• 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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Interesting, Increase, Process

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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

  Waiting, Brain, Magazines

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

  Harvey Dunn

  Art, Faithful, Tone

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

  Northrop Frye

  Made, Novel

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.97, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Color, Use, Should

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”

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• It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in order to follow his thought, because if you do copy an artist, and you have a close feeling for him, in fact that you need to know more about his work, there is no better way than actually to copy, because you get very close indeed to how somebody thinks.

  Bridget Riley

  Art, School, Thinking

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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

  Important, Stealing, Theme

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