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Designers are plagiarists.

— Zayed Khan

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots of design is…

— Steven Heller

I think the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" is often so thin, that you risk falling into the latter one.

— Ivan Tverdovsky

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

— Ira Glass

In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects…

— Jimenez Lai

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics…

— Carl von Clausewitz

The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I wanted to…

— Shigeru Ban

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding…

— Kenya Hara

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

— Lebbeus Woods

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

— Anna Sui

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the…

— Andy Goldsworthy

“Designs belong to individual designers; Architecture belongs to communities of practice. We”

— Peter Lucas