Copying Quotes - Page 3

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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.

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.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

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

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.

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.

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

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

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to be on The Apprentice,.

You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.

Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.

Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

We all are influenced by things and copy things, but often where there is a certain level of copying, only the surface value ends up being reproduced and that becomes thinner and thinner. I feel like a lot of appropriation suffers from that.

Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.

In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy.

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

David Lynch is very important to me, and he does dreamlike movies, but my dreams are not like David Lynch's dreams. I have no interest in copying anybody's work. It would never occur to me to want this to look like someone else's thing.

I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.