Ne-Yo Quotes

I think anything created today can be said to be a ripoff. It's hard to find anything original any more.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

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

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.

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

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

I absolutely don't deny that I was inspired by 'Fight Club,' among many other television shows and films. I completely not only acknowledge it, I own it and love to nod to them as much as possible.

There's a lot of people I take stuff from, and it's mostly bad guys in movies.

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

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

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.

Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.

The way that I'm working now is basically the way I've been working since I was a kid: Find the greatest artist in whatever you do, and rip them off with respect. I think there's a big difference between ripping off with respect and ripping off in disrespect.

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.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

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.

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

Blake is damned good to steal from.