Quotes and Sayings About Copying
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I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.
-- Aidan Turner -
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
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 -
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 -
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.
-- Boris Pasternak -
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.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.
-- Chet Atkins -
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.
-- Christopher Willard -
You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
-- Damien Hirst -
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
-- Dave Hampton -
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
-- David Boies -
Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?
-- Edward Felten -
Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.
-- Edward Felten -
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.
-- Ellsworth Kelly -
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.
-- Ferran Adria -
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.
-- Francis Crick -
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.
-- Frank Gehry -
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
-- Frederick Franck -
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.
-- Harvey Dunn -
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.
-- Henri Matisse -
Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.
-- Igor Babailov -
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.
-- Irving Sandler -
When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.
-- James Hetfield -
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,
-- Janine Benyus -
If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!
-- Jay Baer -
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.
-- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -
I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.
-- Jennifer Young
