Creativity means not copying.

You cannot innovate by copying.

To model an object is to possess it.

Copying is about reverse-engineering.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

I am not above copying what other people are doing well.

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!

IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.

I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.

If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!

You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.

When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.

The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.

I'm not copying Bipasha in 'Trishna.' It is no doubt a remake of 'Jism,' but there are certain differences.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums.

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

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