Copying Quotes

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Paul Cezanne

Nature, Painting, Object

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
Sebastian Bach

Someone, Real, Else

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp

Time, Parents, Same

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 following on, copying.
Hugh Hopper

Creative, Rest, Maybe

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 don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
Jack White

Hope, Hate, Past

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 is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
V. S. Naipaul

Work, Great, Men

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 to do something different and take chances.
Lee Ann Womack

Success, Different, Else

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 cannot copy the others.
Nathalie Sarraute

Good, Mind, Bad

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.
Michael Morpurgo

School, Focus, Important

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 models.
Ruben Blades

Music, Pretty, Band

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
Suzanne Fields

Movies, Learning, Law

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 consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?
Edward Felten

Happy, Enough, Able

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 paintings.
Boris Pasternak

Writing, Easy, Far

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.
Steve Guttenberg

Good, Comedy, Known

We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying.
Lawrence Lessig

Law, Creativity, System

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
Charlie Watts

Through, Play, Learned

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
Alberto Giacometti

Life, Reality, Rest

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 passages right out of the encyclopedia.
Tracy Kidder

Learning, Writing, Done

Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida.
David Plouffe

Job, Book, Doubt

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
John Sebastian

Words, Musicians, Spoonful

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 the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.
Edward Felten

Music, Stress, Down

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 a lot of budding musicians out there - that's the thing that gets them inspired, is trying to learn their favorite songs. I think it's a great way to teach yourself.
Susanna Hoffs

Great, Yourself, True

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.
Arthur Rock

Business, Decided, Ibm

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
David Boies

Home, Act, Says

We heard later through the grapevine that we were being compared to the Furious 5, and because of that we were getting feedback that they were saying that we werent all that, that we were copying them... blah blah blah.
Kool Moe Dee

Saying, Through, Getting

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.
Athanasius

Life, Mind, Understand

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 to compete with man at all.
Betty Friedan

Society, Sex, Woman

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.
Bill Frisell

Music, Time, Important

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
Theodore Gericault

Together, Path, Same

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