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a lot more really good quotes on copying other people's art

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. Louis Armstrong

Copying opens your eyes to new possibilities, and new techniques... but trying to fob it off as your own is quite another matter. Louise Bunn

It would seem that copying photographs is never considered plagiarism... Shouldn't real artists get past the point of copying the finished work of fine art photographers? Robb Debenport

Once all the technical devices are well learned, it deadens the soul to use those skills to clone the work of others. Joe Jahn

If you absolutely have to appropriate someone else's work do us the favour of being a genius and make it say something entirely new. Lori Lukasewich

Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction. (Walter J. Phillips)

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