Copying Quotes

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.

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.

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

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.

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.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

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

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation