Copying Quote by Anonymous

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any…

— Mark Twain

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

— James Russell Lowell

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than…

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

— Thomas Gainsborough

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them." God…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

No man knows himself as an original.

— Washington Allston

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his…

— Aristotle

To copy is human, to create divine.

— Jeffrey Fry