Art Quote by William Carlos Williams

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.

— Frederick Franck

The idea is not to copy nature, but to give a feeling of nature.

— Piet Oudolf

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

— Georges Braque

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

— Gertrude Stein

“There is a sense of empowerment and confidence in the act of creation that cannot be achieved by copying.”

— Maureen McLaughlin

“Nobody imitate of someone, maybe there's such a problem of everyone, and they also try to find a solution and it called just imitation...”

— Manroop suthar

Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an…

— Eric Hoffer

Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double…

— Madame de Stael

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

— John James Audubon

Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The…

— Henry James

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater;…

— John Dryden