Ritchie Blackmore Quotes

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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.

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

I believe really strongly in imitation, actually: I think it's the first place you need to go to if you're going to be able to understand how something works. True mimicry is actually quite difficult.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

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

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

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

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.

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

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

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

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

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

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.