(218 quotes found)
“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.”
Anthony Robbins
“If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.”
Yogi Berra
“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.”
William Blake
“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.”
Pablo Picasso
“It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.”
Edgar Degas
“None but blockheads copy each other.”
“To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense”
Charles Churchill
“Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.”
Clarence Darrow
“The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.”
Walter Benjamin
“[She was] a copy editor, possessed of the rare capacity to sit all day in a small cubicle, like a monk in a cell, and read with an almost penitential rigor.”
David Leavitt
