Rob Van Dam Quotes

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

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.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

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

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

Blake is damned good to steal from.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

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

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn't. I think it's theft, and it's lazy.

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

Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

I think anything created today can be said to be a ripoff. It's hard to find anything original any more.

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

Existing is plagiarism.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Someone very smart once said to me, "Steal, don't borrow." So if there's anything good in anything anyone else does, it's fair game. I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

Art is either revolution or plagiarism