Copy Quotes

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. (Pablo Picasso)
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. View quote
Pablo Picasso
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. View quote
Yogi Berra
When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it. View quote
Anatole France
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. View quote
Tom Peters
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. View quote
Jacques Lipchitz
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better. View quote
Giuseppe Verdi
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. View quote
Moses Hadas
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. (Jack Ma)
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. View quote
Paulo Coelho
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. View quote
William Godwin
The true test of all the arts, is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be Within that circle none durst walk but he. View quote
John Dryden
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. View quote
Azar Nafisi
I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan-but they don't know what to copy! View quote
W. Edwards Deming
The great question is: from which country shall we copy the Constitution? View quote
Lima Barreto
I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes. View quote
Erma Bombeck
It is all well and good to copy what one sees, but it is much better to draw only what remains in one's memory. This is a transformation in which imagination and memory collaborate. View quote
Edgar Degas
Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. (Pablo Picasso)
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. View quote
Louis Kronenberger
My pleasure was to copy, not to create. View quote
Manuel Puig
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive. View quote
Kevin Mitnick