Copying Quotes
Copying Quote of the day
Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.
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.
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
We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.
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.
We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.
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.
My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
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.
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.
Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.
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.
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
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
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.
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.
The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.
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.
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.
Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.
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.
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.
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.
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.
Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.
When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.