A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of…

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

— Edgar Degas

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really…

— William Blake

“I can create my imagination because i am an Artist.!”

— Manish Suthar

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks…

— Anonymous

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

— Robert Henri

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants…

— Edgar Degas

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether…

— Lucian Freud

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

— Edgar Degas

In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit…

— Dante Alighieri

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

— Randy Bachman

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with…

— William Congreve

“When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance.”

— Kevin Kelly

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it…

— Rashida Jones

every being is unique.god neva creates carbon copies,he alys creates originals.he is truly a creator.he neva repeats.but man goes on living in imitation.we are…

— Anonymous