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<p>[QUOTE="Lark, post: 9507977, member: 13605"]Not sure if this applies in this conversation. I became friends with a Japanese woman that came to the US to learn English in order to return to Japan to teach English. She once painted a magnolia on a velvet pillow with her finger tips that was an exact match of the photo she was copying. I remarked on her skill. She said in Japan , I am considered mediocre. I envy you in America because you know how to create we only are taught to copy and creating is really not allowed. We copy everything and often make it smaller but not a new creation. Even in schools she said it is all memorizing. She ultimately chose not to go back to Japan because she told me she wanted to be free to create. Now that is one woman's thoughts on copies. I assume she was accurate but having never lived in Japan I could not say.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lark, post: 9507977, member: 13605"]Not sure if this applies in this conversation. I became friends with a Japanese woman that came to the US to learn English in order to return to Japan to teach English. She once painted a magnolia on a velvet pillow with her finger tips that was an exact match of the photo she was copying. I remarked on her skill. She said in Japan , I am considered mediocre. I envy you in America because you know how to create we only are taught to copy and creating is really not allowed. We copy everything and often make it smaller but not a new creation. Even in schools she said it is all memorizing. She ultimately chose not to go back to Japan because she told me she wanted to be free to create. Now that is one woman's thoughts on copies. I assume she was accurate but having never lived in Japan I could not say.[/QUOTE]
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