Copying Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Quality, Common, Arise

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

  Joseph Plaskett

  Artist, Talent, Paint

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• 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.

  Stella Adler

  Play, Needs, Use

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Eye, Men, Impressive

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Ruben Blades

  Dancing, Sound, Band

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• I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Want, Ashamed, Feels

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• I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Foundation, Firsts

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. Judy Garland.

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• If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Goodbye, Teacher, Work

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• Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

  Wally Wood

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Creativity, Artist, Small Jobs

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

  Winston Churchill

  Ruins, Method, Emulate

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• Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

  Igor Babailov

  Exercise, Museums, Essentials

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

  Shia LaBeouf

  Ideas, Creative, Different

  Twitter post from Dec 17, 2013

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

  Jennifer Young

  Moving, Advancement, Originality

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• EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

  Peter Thiel

  Business, Learning, Zuckerberg

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Books Summary: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.2, Best Books on

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• The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• 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.

  Betty Friedan

  Sex, Men, Patterns

  Betty Friedan (2010). “The Feminine Mystique”, p.509, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

  Quentin Crisp

  Teenage, Parent, Rebel

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

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• 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.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Peculiar, Soil

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1846). “The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Author; with Remarks on His Professional Character, Illustrative of His Principles and Practice”, p.73

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

  Damien Hirst

  Able, Copies, Deviate

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• To model an object is to possess it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Models, Objects

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

  David Boies

  Home, Audio, Consumers

  "David Boies: The Wired Interview". www.wired.com. October 01, 2000.

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• 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.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Prejudice, Sake

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• 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.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Generations, Might

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