Winslow Homer Quotes

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

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

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.

I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'

In L.A., anytime a show is a success, people come out of the woodwork claiming they had the idea first.

Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.

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

I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.

Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

I steal from every movie ever made.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

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

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

I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim copies of a particular creation that could somehow hurt the creator.

I rip off of every movie and TV show I've ever seen in my life.