Saul Bass Quotes

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'

Self-plagiarism is style.

Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

If you can't plagiarise yourself, who can you plagiarise?

Why don't people just open... my works instead of accusing me?

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!

Plagiarism is basic to all culture

Between last night and this morning, I've been getting a lot of messages from overseas fans along the lines of 'There's an American comic ripping off Bleach!' I'm not that good at English, but I looked at the site and it seems it's a comic by Nick Simmons, the son of Gene Simmons. To be honest, I'm more bothered by the fact that Gene Simmons' son is a comic artist than whether or not it's a rip-off.

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.

The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.

You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated their copyrights because there's a lot of music out there, and there's a lot of things that feel like other things that are influenced by other things. And you don't want to get into that thing where all of us are suing each other all the time because this and that song feels like another song.

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

I often plagiarize from myself. I like to think of this as ecological journalism: I recycle.

To copy is to invite disaster.

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

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