Emily Carr Quotes

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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

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

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

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

I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

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

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Most authors steal their works, or buy.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

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

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.