copy quotes

Artistes, poe'  tes, e  crivains, si vous copiez toujours, on ne vous copiera jamais. Artists, poets, writers, if you copy others all the time, no one will copy you.

-Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
  Me  moires sur la me  nagerie.

It is all very well to copy what you see; it is much better to draw what you see only in memory.

- (Hilaire Germain) Edgar Degas
Quoted in R H Ives Gammell The Shop-Talk of Edgar Degas (1961).