[dirGames-L] Great artists steal...

[Jim Andrews]

> Don't lower, raise... remember, "good artists borrow, great artists steal"
>
> > (I think this was by Van Gogh)
>
> It was Picasso.

Perhaps Picasso said something similar. I have always thought it was T.S.
Eliot, as at http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw11.html :

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they
take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something
different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is
unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet
throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually
borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in
interest."

I have always remembered it as 'good poets borrow; great poets steal', so
perhaps he or Picasso or whomever said that elsewhere.

ja
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