When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Why do people make a fuss over people copying them when they copy other people too. There's no such thing as being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. — Joe Pass Copy Share Image
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore. — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
A lot of bands have managed to borrow parts of our style for their music. That's fine with me, because we've borrowed… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When you're young, you obviously have people you look up to. People like Andrew Oldham and Nile Rodgers inspired me then, and… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
I don't really see myself in a lineage which is fine with me. Sometimes I do try to explicitly copy an exact… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I have a great advantage: I write from the perspective of my own voice. I'm not copying anyone's voice. It's my voice.… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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