Quotes About Plagiarism

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

Gathering your own reference materials, sketches and using your own imagination is going to help you grow as an artist far more than stealing someone else's work.

What's interesting to Hal Incandenza about his take on Struck, sometimes Pemulis, Evan Ingersoll, et al. is that congenital plagiarists put so much more work into camouflaging their plagiarism than it would take just to write up an assignment from conceptual scratch. It usually seems like plagiarists aren't lazy so much as kind of navigationally insecure. They have trouble navigating without a detailed map's assurance that somebody has been this way before them.

Every idea that occurred to him, because he became familiar with it in seconds, came with the fear of having stolen it.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

stars were a million darting eyes on the lookout for rule-breaking in her story: sexism, ageism, racism, tokenism, ableism, plagiarism, cultural appropriation, fat-shaming, body-shaming, slut-shaming, vegetarian-shaming, real-estate-agent-shaming. The voice of the Almighty Internet boomed from the sky: Shame on you!

She dared to look up and the stars were a million darting eyes on the lookout for rule-breaking in her story: sexism, ageism, racism, tokenism, ableism, plagiarism, cultural appropriation, fat-shaming, body-shaming, slut-shaming, vegetarian-shaming, real-estate-agent-shaming. The voice of the Almighty Internet boomed from the sky: Shame on you!

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

One semester, I was busted for reverse plagiarism, which basically meant I was too lazy to research a paper for my psychology class so cited false references to support my own theories on deviant behavior.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.