Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on… — Ruben Blades Copy Share Image
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't… — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of… — Keith Shackleton Copy Share Image
Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating.… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Between the key ages of fourteen and twenty-four, numerous Americans will form their views based on the popularity of the current president.… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions… — Douglas Huebler Copy Share Image
EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Having a boy play a girl (and when I say 'play a girl' I don't mean that he is represented as a… — Collier Schorr Copy Share Image
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be… — Christopher Willard Copy Share Image
We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions,… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you… — Francois Englert Copy Share Image
It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing"… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and… — Edward Felten Copy Share Image
It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Copying good things of others, Doesn't mean...you are an imitator. It also shows that you are having good Learning Skills. — Shashank Rayal Copy Share Image
We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to… — Barney Kessel Copy Share Image
It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
“Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work. — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies"… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
