Copying Quotes

131 Copying quotes by 121 unique authors

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful. — David Boies
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. — Charlie Watts
When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I… — Jack White
The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary. — Winston Churchill
To model an object is to possess it. — Pablo Picasso
The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed such a crying… — Chester Carlson
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that… — Augusto Roa Bastos
It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one… — Nathalie Sarraute
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair. — Alberto Giacometti
I basically taught myself how to sing and play by copying records, and that's just how it was for me. I know that's true for… — Susanna Hoffs
Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When… — Edward Felten
Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make… — Edward Felten
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then… — Mark Twain
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. — Michelangelo
I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but… — Henri Matisse
I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of… — Andy Warhol
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the… — Paul Gauguin
Copying is the greatest form of flattery, I guess. I am actually a little surprised that Vincent Lo didn't try and make a deal to… — Donald Trump
When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the… — Cennino Cennini
You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate. — Damien Hirst
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 great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly… — Joshua Reynolds
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock,… — Joshua Reynolds
Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. — Northrop Frye
The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all… — Cennino Cennini

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