Originality And Copying Quotes & Sayings

Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. — Jennifer Young

Admiring doesn't make you exactly like what you admire, admire yourself and you will be original and exactly how you wish and feel to be. — Auliq Ice

They say copying is a form of flattery, I say it's lack of originality. — Elizabeth Blade

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs. — Criss Jami

People who copy you will always be one step behind. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, so they ended up copying everything, from western clothes and hair styles to the European practice of colonizing foreign people. Unfortunately, they took up empire-building at precisely the moment when the cost of imperialism began to exceed the benefits. — Niall Ferguson