Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.
Creativity means not copying.
Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.
Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original. . . and the rest are generally following on, copying.
You cannot innovate by copying.
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.
We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.
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.
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
Windows '98 is so similar to Windows '95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth copying since 1995.
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.
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.
The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.