Copying Quotes

131 quotes by 123 authors

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban… — Ruben Blades
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. — Paul Cezanne
You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and… — Hsu Yun
...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or in this case, an architectural...… — George W. Bush
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. — Francis Crick
The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don`t carry any ought on your heart! You are not to be somebody… — Rajneesh
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same. — Lana Del Rey
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where… — Robert Adams
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying… — Boris Pasternak
I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead. — Cindy Sherman
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow. — Paul Sloane
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object. — Frederick Franck
The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others. — Seth Godin
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without… — Soren Kierkegaard
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing… — Betty Friedan
Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it… — Barney Kessel
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying… — Tracy Kidder
A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each… — Auguste Rodin

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