Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.
It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine. ' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic.
Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.
The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal.
In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without using oil colors to avoid any reference with usual painting). These were probably the first manifestations of their kind, pictures that were their own reality, without meaning or cerebral intention. We rejected everything in the nature of a copy or a description, in order to give free flow to what was elemental and spontaneous.
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that this work of Nietzsche's played much role in the gestation of the novella.
Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.
Real failure comes when we consider ourselves good enough at something to be able to repeat it rather than to develop it. "Success is dangerous," the painter Pablo Picasso said. "One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. "
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style.
Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson. ' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
The copy price of the future is the copyright.
My goal is never to copy. Create a new style.
Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.