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Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.
— Jakob Nielsen
Being yourself is the meat and potatoes of mothering, and if you are forever copying someone else's way you are apt to lose touch with your own truth.
— Janet P. Penley
I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
— Vincent Van Gogh
Copying is the highest form of flattery
— Tito Sotto
Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.
— Seth Godin
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
— Sebastian Bach
In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
— John Sebastian
No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.
— Joseph Plaskett
Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a celebration. One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!
— Jasper Fforde
Creativity means not copying.
— Ferran Adria
The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
— David Boies
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.
— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.
— Lexi Alexander
To model an object is to possess it.
— Pablo Picasso
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 moment.
— Wayne Thiebaud
It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.
— Steve Guttenberg
Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
— Alberto Giacometti
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.
— Idries Shah
We are gene-copying bio-robots, living out here on a lonely planet in a cold and empty physical universe.
— Thomas Ligotti
Actually, attorneys say, copying a purchased CD for even one friend violates the federal copyright code most of the time.
— Charles Duhigg
People who copy you will always be one step behind.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.
— Chet Atkins
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
— Richard Stallman
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
— Paul Theroux
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.
— Michelangelo
Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself.
— Yohji Yamamoto
We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.
— Donatella Versace
Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie
— Barney Kessel
Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.
— Christopher Willard
Give me violent revenge fantasies as a copying mechanism.Flash.
Just give me my first oportunity.
Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk
I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.
— Cindy Sherman
Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.
— Neil Gaiman
Copying is about reverse-engineering.
— Austin Kleon
I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.
— Laurie Simmons
My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.
— Claes Oldenburg
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
— Charlie Watts
Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation
— Thomas Gainsborough
Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.
— Jennifer Young
Band geeks are the original," I explain. "Orchestra dorks are simply copying our amazingly uncool status.
— Sarah Tregay
They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality.
— Elizabeth Blade
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.
— Robin Trower
Copying my styles is not equivalent to conquering me.
— Srinivas Shenoy
I didn't want to feel like I was mimicking or copying someone else's performance, whether it's subconscious or not.
— Aidan Turner
You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
— Frederick Franck
The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.
— Winston Churchill
If someone is copying what you do, Congratulate yourself for inspiring that someone to follow your footsteps.
— Mohith Agadi
I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!
— Michael Angelo Batio
The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.
— Tite Kubo
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.
— Ellsworth Kelly
You can't make experimental work by copying past work.
— Trey Parker
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
— Lana Del Rey
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Imitation is about copying. Emulation is when imitation goes one step further, breaking through into your own thing.
— Austin Kleon
Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.
— Igor Babailov
Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.
— John Dyer Baizley
You cannot innovate by copying.
— Larry Ellison
One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.
— Harvey Dunn
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path?
— Theodore Gericault
While you've been away, I've been copying poems out in a book so that I could whisper them to you as you fell asleep.
— Paulo Coelho
