All The Best Ideas Are Stolen!

So for many years (like 30) I have lived with the mantra "All the best ideas are stolen" and "Don't reinvent the wheel -unless you have to" and the older I get the more I think that these two sayings are gold!   There are so many wonderful ideas out there, Pinterest brings to mind a few million!  That it is hard to imagine that anyone ever creates anything new.  I get my ideas for lessons and for art from everywhere-the internet, famous artworks, things my school kids say, other teachers...the list is endless!  However, I never ever trace, or "scan in" anything that I have not created.   Like I tell my school kids-once you do that you are merely a xerox machine!