“The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.” PeopleArtBeautifulArtistExpressionMusic IsArtisticCopiesPersonal Expression Author:Michael Schenker
“I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.” ShouldTryingArtistStudyPiecesMastersStructurePainterArtisticJust OneCopiesSquaresInchesExecutionCanvasSmall PiecesRubens Author:Kazimir Malevich
“So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines and got on the phone and talked to editors about ideas for stories. Pretty soon I found myself hired to do interviews and articles and went off and did them.” IdeasStoriesArtistFoundLiteraturePhonesMagazinesInterviewsCopiesEditorsArticlesYearbook Author:Neil Gaiman
“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.” MaySchoolArtistTurnsTeacherTownsPainterCopiesHonourAbandonedImitation Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingHumansMadeIdeasDoneArtistInspiringHappenedPoetTasteComputerMusicianScientistStealingBest ThingsMemorableBeing The BestCopiesHistorianGreat ArtGreat IdeaGreat ArtistGood ArtShamelessGood ArtistMacintoshZoologist Author:Steve Jobs
“It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied it in order to follow his thought, because if you do copy an artist, and you have a close feeling for him, in fact that you need to know more about his work, there is no better way than actually to copy, because you get very close indeed to how somebody thinks.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsArtFactsFeelingsSchoolArtistOrderCopiesBetter WaysCopyingArt School Author:Bridget Riley
“Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.” SoulCharacterArtistResultsKnowingCreatingDrawsDepthPhotographVisibleMaskCopiesPortraitsPortraiture Author:Igor Babailov
“If you have ambitions to go beyond your dreams, you should not seek to copy others' styles, but rather aim to acquire the fundamentals of the timeless principles of academic school, which is a prerequisite for the development of your Uniqueness as an Artist.” IfsShouldDreamSchoolArtistPrinciplesStyleDevelopmentAmbitionAimFundamentalsYour DreamsAcquireCopiesAcademicUniquenessTimelessPrerequisites Author:Igor Babailov
“And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.” ArtistNextInterestModelsCopiesAccurateHung Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.” IfsGivingYearsTwoTodayArtistForgetMillionsGoneFiveFourCoupleSellsReleaseFive YearsCopiesForget You Author:George Jones