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

  • Having a boy play a girl (and when I say 'play a girl' I don't mean that he is represented as a girl, because he is represented as a young man) is complicated. He knows he's looking at photographs of a girl and copying those poses. So the audience sees him as a man, but he can only see himself as a woman, because that's the model he's looking at. It was a really interesting exchange.

    Girl   Mean   Boys  
  • You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity.

    Real   Heart   Creativity  
  • I would warn very sincerely against the pitfalls of copying photographs. A frozen, split-second bears little relationship to the continuing process of living reality. It is better to look, look again, and keep on looking.

  • I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

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

    Copying   Made   Novel  
    Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.97, Princeton University Press
  • Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model.

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

    Apples   Copying   Window  
  • 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.

    Art   Quality   Copying  
  • You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.

    Jobs   Numbers   Inspire  
  • Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake has been translated down through the generations, and more mistakes have accumulated. So the longer the lineage has been in existence, the more mistakes the sequence is going to have.

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

    Waiting   Brain   Copying  
  • Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written.

    Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken
  • Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

  • Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.

    Real   Mean   Style  
  • Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

    Twitter post from Dec 17, 2013
  • I used to play a lot of chess and competitive chess and study chess and as you get to the grandmasters and learn their styles when you start copying their games like the way they express themselves through... The way Kasparov or Bobby Fischer expresses themselves through a game of chess is it's astonishing. You can show a chess master one of their games and they'll say "Yeah, that is done by that player."

    Player   Games   Style  
    Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.
  • It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

  • 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.

    "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.
  • 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.

    Art   Copying   Peculiar  
    Sir Joshua Reynolds (1846). “The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Author; with Remarks on His Professional Character, Illustrative of His Principles and Practice”, p.73
  • The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

    The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)
  • The fact that Gene Simmon's son is a manga-ka disturbs me more than whether he's really copying or not.

    Son   Copying   Facts  
  • Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.

    Song   Writing   Exercise  
  • For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.

    Play   Copying   Culture  
  • Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.

    Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.29, Lulu.com
  • It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

    Mind   Copying   Looks  
  • It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

    "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids," Nature, 25 Apr. 1953. Coauthored with James D.Watson.
  • If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?

    Pride   Men   Thinking  
  • The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies like Enron." True - although the bill allowed all companies to accelerate depreciation of copying machines. Yes, Enron benefited, but Enron also benefited from the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Hardly an argument to freeze the planet in one spot.

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

    Interview with Gary James, www.theharbinger.org. October 7, 1997.
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