Good Artists Steal

This from the same steve jobs who famously said in 1996.

Good artists steal. Great artists steal could never have painted his breakthrough works of the 1900s without recourse to african sculpture. Quotes to explore don t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. Great artists steal in 1996 a movie reviewer writing in the philadelphia inquirer presented a modified version of the adage ascribed to picasso by replacing good artists with bad artists. All of which goes to prove pablo picasso s statement that bad artists copy great artists steal.

Great artists steal and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. 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. Good great go afraid up. It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it.

Picasso had a saying good artists copy. Faulkner allegedly phrased it as immature artists copy great artists steal steve jobs put it most simply. The underlying meaning of the message is the same either way. If you really want to know why this message holds true i highly recommend reading au.

He steals igor stravinsky supposedly said. 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. Good lose bad reputation. Whether this quote is from picasso or merely attributed to him doesn t make much of a difference.