Quotes About Plagiarism

Alma's dependence on Hebrews 7 is not a matter of plagiarism but one of interpretive and conceptual borrowing.

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

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

I hate being unappreciated for my work and stolen from.

All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

You know what Picasso says. 'Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

Picasso says. 'Bad artists copy, good artists steal.

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

Writers are thieves, We steal stories. We steal names. We steal scenes. We observe the world and we take what we need and modify it.

I am an emotional plagiarist, stealing other people's pain, subsuming it into my own until I can't remember whose it is any more.

Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

under oath he revealed the course was designed by taking holes from the courses he found on a PlayStation-era Tiger Woods video game. This resulted in Loudoun County being sued by Pebble Beach, Cog Hill and St. Andrews, not only for stealing from their courses, but for doing it so poorly that it damaged the original courses' reputations.

The kind of plagiarism which it is most difficult for any human individual to avoid (and even for whole nations, who persist in reproducing their faults and aggravate them in so doing) is self-plagiarism.

Hose-pipe – car exhaust – locked room – all that, not original,' he blurted out at last. 'Plagiarism. All in a book.' 'In

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

Copy and paste is a design error.

The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind. So I left 'em sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

It was sort of like the way writers had long been pillaging all the good phrases from Shakespeare plays for the titles of their novels, so the only phrases still available meant nothing. Soon, Emmett thought, people would be writing novels called Enter, Guard .