Quotes About Originality

Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself.

Stand-up is one of the art forms where you don't have to look nice, and I hope it stays that way.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

I'm very protective of my material. And you have to be, because it's very easy for people just to steal jokes.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Good poets borrow; great poets steal.

Someone gave me a piece of advice once, my first manager Lucien Hold. He said, 'If you do stand-up about your own life, no one can steal it.' I always thought that was the best piece of advice.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

When people ask me where I get my ideas, I lie. I tell them I draw inspiration from the news, the world, my dreams. Or I joke and say that I steal from other writers. I lie because I don't know where ideas come from, and I'm afraid if I look too hard, they'll stop coming.

If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art, and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates it in order to steal part of my market, then that's not cool.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

Never steal jokes.

The one and only thing that every comic agrees on is that you do not steal jokes.

I would never steal a friend's idea for a baby name, ever!

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

Everyone steals from something or someone.