Copy Quotes
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We Europeans have to toil to achieve it, at least as a transitional stage, for it is what we feed our dreams upon. These Orientals from India have it in their blood, perhaps because they spend their lives I the sun. We poor wretched Europeans must sacrifice body and soul for even a shadow of it.. .It is not a question of trying to reproduce objective features, only of good practice for the fingers and for the perceptive faculty, and that too is very useful. You must have read how Van Gogh was always getting his brother to send him drawings to copy. And how Rembrandt used to copy Indian an Italian pictures. Not of course, because they were short of material, but to get 'du corps'. So one should be always drawing.. .Oh, you'd love the Indians. The pure, Aryan Indians, not those one could see in Berlin, whose forms had become rigid and sterile through mingling with the Chinese.
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I'm doing my best whether it's for a hundred-copy print run or for a hundred thousand.
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Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well.
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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.
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You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.
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The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
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Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.
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Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.
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He kept talking and I thought about taking my copy of Huckleberry Finn and stuffing it in his mouth so he'd shut up.
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In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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It is the West’s provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself.
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OK, Houston we copy that. We'll be a wave off for today.
