[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their stat….

Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model..

When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening..

The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies lik….

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters..

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work..

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….

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 t….

If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!.

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 any….

It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russia….

I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should no….

Perhaps one of the most essential exercises in learning to paint is the copying of master works in the museums..

In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. F….