Best Great Artists Steal
We are all afraid of being called a copycat and rightly so.
Best great artists steal. Whether this quote is from picasso or merely attributed to him doesn t make much of a difference. Great artists steal is towards the idea that a good artist will in fact copy a good work. And the word transformative dears is the crux of the matter in any fair use question be it written painted or notated on a g pentatonic scale. When there s anything to steal i steal here i imagine an amoeba engulfing other protozoans.
If you really want to know why this message holds true i highly recommend reading au. Good artists copy great artists steal. Great artists steal is series of videos that will help you do just that. The phrasing good artists copy.
Yet here she is at moma the temple of great artists and an institution that owns none of her works but many of the sources for them. But the world s best authors and artists understand that genius is not created in a vacuum. So i hope you enjoy the videos any questions please post them in the comments and i ll do my best to reply. This from the same steve jobs who famously said in 1996.
Faulkner allegedly phrased it as immature artists copy great artists steal steve jobs put it most simply. Br assuming that picasso did say this and seriously i would love to learn of a verifiable source i think the words good artists borrow great artists steal constitute one of the most misunderstood and misused creative phrases of all time. That s how it works. Great artists steal and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
A good composer does not imitate. But a great one modifies it which is in fact theft of the idea. Picasso had a saying good artists copy. According to wikiquote the statement good artists copy great artists steal comes from a 1989 article in infoworld long after the artist died.
The second quote comes from a 1965 article in thought and thus seems less arguably inauthentic. He steals igor stravinsky supposedly said. Its a hugely simplistic phrasing but then that s why its memorable.