It is not hard to identify a thief: It is the one who believes that everybody steals.

A thief was a thief, whether he stole a little or a lot.

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief. All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief.

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.

Art is theft.

Stealing is really an art, a dangerous, risky art, though.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

:To be led by a thief