Susan Sontag Quotes

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

I feel like the Earth is a re-print of a re-print of a print of a re-print.

Duplication never works for anybody.

I can't copy nature.

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

It's hard to simulate the things that I do.

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.

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

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

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

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

I've always been against trying to make a movie like another movie. That's lame. It's already been done, so why do it again?

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.