Janice Dickinson Quotes

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

The most original minds borrowed from one another.

When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Although there's no one I really pattern my game after, I am a firm believer in stealing stuff from other people.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.

Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

I try to model my game from just a lot of people. If I like something from someone's game, I'll try to take it and just add it to mine.

What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books.

The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

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

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.