Quotes About Creativity

If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before.

Beauty can grow as a whole, since you shouldn't copy other people.

In my films, they say the action sequences are very local and not international. But why should I copy from English films?

I don't want to be a copy of anyone else.

There are a lot of players when I watch them playing I say, 'Amazing, I want to do like them.' But not to be like them - just some parts to copy. But always be myself and always play my own style.

There was a time when not many people had access to Malayalam films. So those who did have access went on to copy the films, add a few bits, and present it like it was their own.

I'm forced away from what I would call my music. I can't do another thing like 'Maxinquaye.' But if people didn't go out and copy it, I might have done another three or four 'Maxinquayes.' Which is terrible.

It's okay to be inspired by somebody else, but don't copy somebody else.

Obviously, don't copy everything we do.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.

It's easy for a singer to sometimes pick up on another singer's sound, but that's just copying.

I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.

Ant & Dec have always nicked stuff off us. We met their writers, they said they just trawl our stuff and adapt it. The problem is they're a lot bigger than us, so people think we're copying them.

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

A lot of people accuse me of copying Courtney Love.

From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing.

Nobody has a copyright on 'Emotional Atyachar,' other than Anurag Kashyap maybe!

You can't copyright a urinal. But you could probably copyright a sculpture of a urinal. And like Duchamp's famous work, code is both, at the same time.