Appropriation Quote by Jason Fulford

Why do people make a fuss over people copying them when they copy other people too. There's no such thing as being original.

— Anonymous

A lot of times when people get copied, they get copied and washed out. But you can't even duplicate how we do it because…

— Offset

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

— Charles Churchill

. . .nature indifferently copied is far superior to the best idealities.

— John James Audubon

If you look at items of clothing like denim or polo shirts, they came from someone else's idea and everyone now makes them, but…

— Hiroshi Fujiwara

The truth is that... if you put any idea out there that's kind of flashy, you have many, many people that are going to…

— Gaspar Noe

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

— Eric Hoffer

Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent, ineffable,…

— Walter J. Phillips

You realize just by writing down everything you own that it's just materialistic stuff. We are much more than that.

— Gianluca Vialli

“Although it may seem like you're losing your individuality when you part with your belongings, the reality seems to be the other way around.…

— Fumio Sasaki

Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that…

— Samuel Smiles