Copy Quotes

612 Copy quotes by 498 unique authors

Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature. — Henry Moore
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
There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97. — Bruce Schneier
Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but… — Walter J. Phillips
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the… — Wayne Thiebaud
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try… — Steve Jobs
Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple. — Steve Jobs
Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read… — Emily Dickinson
They say if somebody has done something you want to do, all you need to do is go out and copy them. — Chael Sonnen
You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style. — Josh Lieb
The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio. — Ed Bradley

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