Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

You can parody almost anything.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

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.

Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

I can't copy nature.