Copying Quotes · Page 2

Copying is about reverse-engineering.

— Austin Kleon

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

— Claes Oldenburg

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

— Masaru Ibuka

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

— Michael Craig-Martin

Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.

— Seth Godin

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

— John Sebastian

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

— Yoko Ono

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

— Tite Kubo

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

— Laurie Simmons

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a…

— Janine Benyus

“There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy…

— Shannon L. Alder

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints…

— Anonymous

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

— Romeo Santos

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

— Wally Wood

“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be…

— Suzy Kassem

I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey…

— Freddie Hubbard

Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's…

— Alexis Taylor

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do…

— Robert Adams

You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really…

— Susan Blackmore

I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made…

— Art Spiegelman

You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean…

— Stephen Chbosky

Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It…

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

— Rachilde

Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in…

— David Plouffe

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

— D.T. Suzuki

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

— Karl Lagerfeld

I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.

— Peter Sunde

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

— Alberto Giacometti

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.

— Paul Sloane

Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.

— Jakob Nielsen

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

— Igor Babailov

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

— Damien Hirst

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

— Jimi Hendrix

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

— Paul Cezanne

Everything in my life has come from an urge to share. Everything I've learned is from friends, family and copying.

— Peter Sunde

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

— Joseph Plaskett

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

— David Boies

If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!

— Jay Baer

We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

— Donatella Versace

Patience, Since I keep on copying your bio,how about you keep on copying my bio

— CLARE