Copying Quotes - Page 2

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.

Creativity means not copying.

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

You cannot innovate by copying.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

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

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.

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

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

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.

To model an object is to possess it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.