LOL What did I win?? Sorry I truncated your quote at the wrong spot, but I think it's intuitive that you were referring to what others had stated, not what your personal opinion was.
Art is about expressing one's self though, nothing akin to writing a scientific paper. I just think using another's work in your art is a little cheap. If you 'couldn't do it better,' just accept that and do the best you can on your own merits, don't jack another's work to augment your own.