If you copy then it is not self-expression.

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

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.

— Randy Bachman

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

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

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

— Piet Oudolf

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

— Kevin Kelly

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

There have to be at least two copies of a photograph, otherwise it’s not a photograph.

— Thomas Ruff

In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball…

— Bow Wow

It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in…

— Bridget Riley

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

— Lauryn Hill

People have one of two extreme reactions to my book. They either throw it across the room, or they rush out and buy 10…

— Louise Hay

A presentation copy...is a copy of a book whoch does not sell, sent you by the author, with his foolish autograph at the beginning…

— Charles Lamb

We are all born originals, why is it so many of us die copies?

— Edward Young