Borrowing Quote by Laurie Simmons

What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a…

— Richard Prince

This photographing is really the business of stealing.

— Diane Arbus

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

— Susan Sontag

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

The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos,…

— Raymond Chandler

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

— Bill Jay

Life is like posing for pictures, we pose the way we want to be seen by others but stolen shots are better. They capture…

— HOttieDeviL

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.

— Cindy Sherman

I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But…

— Helmut Newton

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say…

— Carol Friedman

I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages…

— Nick Simmons

We all borrow and steal and copy from each other, and that's the way I think people get inspired.

— Tom Green