Karl Kraus Quotes

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

If you do come up with a new idea, in 4 seconds it will belong to somebody else.

I am not really an inventor. I just steal my ideas from 8-year olds.

If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.

Genius Borrows nobly.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.