Best Copying Quotes - Inspiring & Motivational Collection

To Model An Object Is To Possess It.

Only God Creates. The Rest Of Us Just Copy.

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.

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 Attained By Servilely Copying The Model Before You.

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, Yet Each Has Its Own Peculiar Modes Both Of Imitating Nature And Of Deviating From It... The Deviation, More Especially, Will Not Bear Transplantation To Another Soil.

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 Only After Identifying Myself With It.

The Only Way You Can Better John Is By Copying Him Exactly.

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.

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.

I Rather Want My Things To Be Copied Than Me Copying. I Would Feel Ashamed!

Copying Isn’t Particularly Creative Work. Being Inspired By Someone Else’s Idea To Produce Something New And Different Is Creative Work.

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