COPYING

“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I know this is such a touchy subject amongst artists!

No one likes to be copied......but.....
...if we as artists want to put our art out there....expect it to be copied!

We must be aware that people are going to see it and love it!
IMITATION is the sincerest form of flattery!

To imitate someone is to pay the person a genuine compliment—often an "unintended" compliment.


Yes I believe we need to all need to try to be original. For some though, I think it is their way of exploring their own world of art. Looking for what is right for them. Imitating someone else's art is part of their process of learning and hopefully it will start them on their own creative ideas.

For myself as an artist, it doesn't really bother me so much if someone tries to copy me. Each of us has a process that is uniquely ours. No one can take that from us!

Here's a few more quotes I think are relevant to this subject:

“It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.”

Orison Swett Marden


“Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Just a little "Food for Thought"

Julie