“Existing is plagiarism.”

“Self-plagiarism is style.”

“Art is either revolution or plagiarism”

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”

“The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.”

“Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.”

“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.”

“When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.”

“Perhaps the Russians have done the right thing, after all, in abolishing copyright. It is well known that conscious and unconscious appropriation, borrowing, adapting, plagiarizing, and plain stealing are variously, and always have been, part and parcel of the process of artistic creation. The attempt to make sense out of copyright reaches its limit in folk song. For here is the illustration par excellence of the law of Plagiarism. The folk song is, by definition and, as far as we can tell, by reality, entirely a product of plagiarism.”

“Hawkesworth said of Johnson, "You have a memory that would convict any author of plagiarism in any court of literature in the world."”