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“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.”

- Steve Jobs/Picasso/Stravinsky/Eliot

[cm2187]

And in my opinion this is some fuckery between consenting adults.

[alpaca128]

This quote doesn't have anything to do with literal theft, though:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/

[deeblering4]

Depends on your outlook towards intellectual property

[jareklupinski]

- jareklupinski

[awb]

To be clear, they're talking about ideas and the adaptation of those ideas, not literally stealing cash or property.

“Good artists borrow [by modifying ideas], great artists steal [by copying ideas].”

[alpaca128]

The stealing part doesn't refer to directly copying ideas (I mean what great artist would do that?), more how good artists instead are able to use other works as inspiration, "make it their own" and put their spin on it.

[falcor84]

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