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A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. (Louis Armstrong)
We do not wish to copy nature. We do not want to reproduce, we want to produce. (Hans Jean Arp)
Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums. (Igor Babailov)
If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. (Brad Bird)
You can copyright your art, but not your artistic vision. (Robert Bissett)
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. (William Blake)
Once you set out to copy another painter you can never be more than number two. (Sergei Bongart)
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.' (Johannes Brahms)
Copying opens your eyes to new possibilities, and new techniques... but trying to fob it off as your own is quite another matter. (Louise Bunn)
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. (Emily Carr)
When you have practiced drawing for a while... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters. (Cennino Cennini)
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake. (Gustave Courbet)
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. (Malcolm Cowley)
If you are a true artist and not a copyist, no matter how much you covet the work of others, what you produce is going to be uniquely yours. (Warren Criswell)
I don't want people to copy Matisse or Picasso, although it is entirely proper to admit their influence. I don't make paintings like theirs. I make paintings like mine. (Stuart Davis)
It would seem that copying photographs is never considered plagiarism... Shouldn't real artists get past the point of copying the finished work of fine art photographers? (Robb Debenport)
If my students seem to copy me when they are learning, that is good. It shows they are listening and trying to do what I tell them. They will develop their own style soon enough. (William Draper)
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; / Within that circle none durst walk but he. (John Dryden)
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. (Harvey Dunn)
Those who only copy are not and will never be 'real artists.' (Gwen Fox)
Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. (Northrop Frye)
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. (Judy Garland)
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence. (Paul Gauguin)
There is no such thing as intellectual property. (Jean-Luc Godard)
The things we counterfeit are not worth the trouble of falling into disgrace with ourselves. (Henry S. Haskins)
Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first. (J. E. Hedges)
You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate. (Damien Hirst)
They're building walls faster than we can make original art to go on it. Reproductions are the answer. (Kiff Holland)
Once all the technical devices are well learned, it deadens the soul to use those skills to clone the work of others. (Joseph Jahn)
Copies are just that, copies - not the real thing. If one sets standards low enough, they are easily reached. (Shari Jones)
A painting or a picture is not a real copy of the actual object or person. It is a co-ordination of line, color and form in space. The Artist's life gives him his content and that content is expressed through line, color and form. (Jyotsna Kadam)
It's not everyday one decides to live poorly, but every day he does until it's no longer affordable; the result of which are hand painted reproductions of another artist's servitude. (G. Langholtz)
-advice to a student...
Copy the works of the Almighty first and those of Turner next. (Edward Lear)
If you just copy your subject matter you're missing ninety per cent of the art. (David Leffel)
If you absolutely have to appropriate someone else's work do us the favour of being a genius and make it say something entirely new. (Lori Lukasewich)
Every stroke in the work of John Singer Sargent's work has a purpose and a reason for being on the canvas... it is impossible to copy him. (Annie MacIntosh)
Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. (Michelangelo)
Copying has been a time-honored means of learning how to do anything. (Gabriella Morrison)
Copying or cloning is not valid because it misses the whole point of art making. (Odette Nicholson)
Every conceivable aspect of painting has its roots in copying. Painters are by nature copyists. (Leonard Niles)
Copying for profit is not artistry. An artist needs to feel the work, see it taking shape, and discover the magic. (Ben Novak)
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could... I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at... not copy it. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee. (oliver)
Creative people are supposedly those who do not copy or imitate others; copying is supposedly theft. To deny people the right to copy, intimately, from others, is to deny the essence of what it is to be a creative person. (William Patry)
Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method. (Walter J. Phillips)
Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction. (Walter J. Phillips)
There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase. (Walter J. Phillips)
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. (Pablo Picasso)
No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another. (Joseph Plaskett)
There is no harm in repeating a good thing. (Plato)
A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy; so he has only to copy to prove his originality. (Radiquet)
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it. (Robert Rauschenberg)
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. (Sir Joshua Reynolds)
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. (Sir Joshua Reynolds)
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. (Sir Joshua Reynolds)
Copying clarifies the line between doing your own work and appropriating someone else's. I think of it as a valid learning tool that should be set aside when you become a professional. (Cindy Ricksgers)
Copying is not art, it is technique. Art is perception. (Norman Ridenour)
Xerox copies, Artists Create. (CJ Rider)
Copying can give you insights into somebody else's process, which may help you to a new level. But copying is a tool, not an answer. (Skip Rohde)
In the '50s, to appropriate was a real no-no. However, once you go from Duchamp to Jasper Johns to Warhol, appropriation becomes not only a common thing to do, but possibly the central way of working in the era we call postmodernism. (Irving Sandler)
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product. (Phillipe Starck)
Copying someone's work is not a form of flattery – it's pure theft. (Sandra Stoodley)
People who are afraid of being copied are worrying about nothing. There is no such thing as an original idea. (June Szueber)
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)
-Europe and Elsewhere...
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive. (Mark Twain)
Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. (Jennifer Young)
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