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“I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.”

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Author:Pietro Aretino

“If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.”

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Author:Cennino Cennini

“My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.”

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Author:Tamara de Lempicka

“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.”

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Book:The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes

“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.”

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Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

“I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.”

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Book:The Same River Twice

Source: The Same River Twice

“continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.”

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Book:Our freedom and its results

Source: Our freedom and its results

“People will try to copy what they can see, which is the final product or service, but it's much harder to see (and copy) all the intricacies of the business model that allows you to create, capture, and deliver value. And that's what you need to get right to really jam something down people's throats!”

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Author:Scott D. Anthony

“I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.”

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Author:Jose Saramago