Copier Quotes

A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator. (Joshua Reynolds)
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brains send me a product... I am my brain's publisher. View quote
Philippe Starck
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. View quote
Andrew Young
"To imitate Socrates” meant, in other words, to staunchly refuse imitation; refuse imitation of the person "Socrates”-or any other person, however worthy. The model of life Socrates selected, painstakingly composed and laboriously cultivated for himself might have perfectly suited his kind of person, but it would not necessarily suit all those who made a point of living as Socrates did. A slavish imitation of the specific mode of life that Socrates constructed on his own, and to which he remained unhesitatingly, steadfastly loyal throughout, would amount to a betrayal of his legacy, to the rejection of his message-a message calling people first and foremost to listen to their own reason, and calling thereby for individual autonomy and responsibility. Such an imitation could suit a copier or a scanner, but it will never result in an original artistic creation, which (as Socrates suggested) human life should strive to become. View quote
Zygmunt Bauman
A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies, I give thanks For a new relish, careless to inquire My pleasure's pedigree, if so it please, Nobly, I mean, nor renegade to art. The Grecian gluts me with its perfectness, Unanswerable as Euclid, self-contained, The one thing finished in this hasty world, Forever finished, though the barbarous pit, Fanatical on hearsay, stamp and shout As if a miracle could be encored. View quote
James Russell Lowell