I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation
I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.
A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may have noted each detail minutely, the result will be flat and without character. . . the artist on the contrary, sees; that is to say, his eye, grafted on his heart, reads deeply into the bosom of nature.
Creativity means not copying.
The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.
David Lynch is very important to me, and he does dreamlike movies, but my dreams are not like David Lynch's dreams. I have no interest in copying anybody's work. It would never occur to me to want this to look like someone else's thing.
You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
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
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.
I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.
Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.
Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is to do it brilliantly.
The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.
I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.
The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.