Copies Quotes

586 Copies quotes by 494 unique authors

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. — Francis Arinze
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work. — Daniel J. Bernstein
I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells… — Gerry Beckley
I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved. — Edward Felten
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame… — James A. Michener
Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years… — Dave Barry
You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book.… — Richard Dawkins
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which… — Arthur Koestler
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. — Michelangelo
You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should… — Pablo Picasso
Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a… — Pablo Picasso
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore
It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things. — Vincent Van Gogh
Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin
If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or the… — Cennino Cennini
Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of… — Robert Henri
You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate. — Damien Hirst
I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only… — Paul Cezanne
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more… — Gustave Courbet
The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end… — Joshua Reynolds
If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them. — Cennino Cennini
There are people already sharing eBooks out there, .. and they do it simply because they love books. You don't buy a second copy of… — Cory Doctorow
I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he… — Kazimir Malevich

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