Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired…

There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them…

— John Perry Barlow

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Here's how man thinks: "If no one's done it, why should I try? It's a waste of my time; but if he's done it,…

— Nabil N. Jamal

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

Copying is a form of self-validation.

— Patrick Cox

You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Why would anybody hire a someone who is copying someone else when he can get the original one?

— KK

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying…

— Paul Gauguin

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

— Thomas Gainsborough

Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where…

— D.T. Suzuki

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think…

— Rachilde

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

— Seth Godin

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else…

— Romeo Santos

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know…

— Robert Adams

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…

— Jeanette Winterson