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«Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.»
«If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.»
Author: Billie Holiday | About: Music | Keywords: alike, copy, copying, on earth, working
«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.»
«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.»
«A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.»
«If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.»
«Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.»
Author: Pablo Picasso (Artist, Painter) | About: Art | Keywords: artists, copy, copying, steal
«I live in my own place - have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh»
«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.»
«None but blockheads copy each other.»

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