This article is about quoting. For information about the punctuation mark, see Quotation mark

A quotation is a fragment of a human expression that has been inserted into another human expression. It is most often a written or oral fragment and in such cases it is also called a quote. This latter type of quotation is almost always taken from literature, though speech transcripts, film dialogues, and song lyrics are also common and valid sources.

Besides this, a quotation can also refer to the use of a piece of other artistic works — elements of a painting, scenes from a movie or sections from a musical composition — into another one.