Quotes by Copying We have a massive system to regulate creativity. A massive system of lawyers regulating creativity as copyright law has expanded in unrecognizable forms, going from a regulation of publishing to a regulation of copying. Lawrence Lessig copyingcreativitylaw We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater. LeCrae copyingmissingculture Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore. Lexi Alexander copyingstealingmean I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. Mahatma Gandhi copyingvegetarianismanimal If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive. Mark Twain copyingeyemen I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing! Michael Angelo Batio copyingmy-own You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them. Michael Craig-Martin honourcopyingtrying The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes. Michael Heizer copyingsay-anythingmean Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. Michelangelo copyingcopies 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. Nathalie Sarraute copyingmindlooks Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. Northrop Frye copyingnovelmade A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee. Oliver $ copyingartistpay To model an object is to possess it. Pablo Picasso copyingobjectsmodels Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. Paul Cezanne copyingpaintingart Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence. Paul Gauguin copyingsunfirsts I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"? Petra Haden copyingwaitingsong I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product. Philippe Starck copyingwaitingbrain 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. Quentin Crisp copyingteenageparent 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 copyingbreathingnatural It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is. Ralph Waldo Emerson copyingmenneeds«123456»
