Borrowed Quote by Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

“The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow.”

— Harold Bloom

“Of course, it’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world…

— Peter Thiel

When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which means it's…

— Ma Yansong

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo.

— Stephane Rolland

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

— Frank Herbert

Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.

— Henry Petroski

Where the perhapses are found something has to be done about it and since art deals in the perhapses & maybe sos why not…

— John Marin

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very…

— Robert Collier

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

— Freeman Dyson

A work of art is full of perhapses and maybesos. Where the perhapses are found, something has to be done about it. And since…

— John Marin

The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.

— Maria Montessori