Voltaire Quotes

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

I borrow bits from everyone.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

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

You get ideas from other people all the time.

Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

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.

It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

A good way to have good ideas is by being unoriginal.

Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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

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

I have fantastic ideas.

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

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

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.

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

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.