Copying Quotes

131 Copying quotes by 121 unique authors

We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He… — Maurice Denis
Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result… — Walter J. Phillips
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
There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately… — 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
The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and… — Stella Adler
No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another. — Joseph Plaskett
Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is… — Johannes Brahms
It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian… — Kate Beckinsale
Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When… — C.S. Lewis
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their… — Quentin Crisp
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally… — Hugh Hopper
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what… — V.S. Naipaul
Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the… — Vivienne Westwood
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have… — Lee Ann Womack
I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead… — John Fowles
I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and… — Jeanette Winterson
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. — Yogi Berra
You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to act around guys. I mean it's not like… — Stephen Chbosky
The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not. — Tite Kubo
They're headed for some place called the Great Barrier." "A place that doesn't exist." Liv was shaking her head, checking the rotating dials on her… — Kami Garcia
On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design. She had been… — Hilary McKay
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name… — Rumi
Charlotte, who had sagged back in her chair, her eyes half-closed, said, “Will, I have already been up all night copying down the relevant parts.… — Cassandra Clare
It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too — Paul Cezanne

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