Joseph Addison Quotes

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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

Creativity in copyright law only means that you didn’t copy it from someone else …. Most works that are protected under copyright are not creative in the colloquial sense of the word.

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.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.

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.

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

A lot of my business is about protecting creativity.

Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.

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

I can't copy nature.

I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

As I've matured as a songwriter, I realize that if it's out there, it's mine.

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.