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Borrowing and creativity4 quotes
Steal old stuff. — Austin Kleon · 2017The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything. — Oscar Wilde · 1885The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn. — T.S. Eliot · 1920The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. — Pablo Picasso · 1935Creativity4 quotes
Steal old stuff. — Austin Kleon · 2017The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything. — Oscar Wilde · 1885The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn. — T.S. Eliot · 1920The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. — Pablo Picasso · 1935Artists1 quote
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. — Pablo Picasso · 1935Inspiration1 quote
Steal old stuff. — Austin Kleon · 2017Poetry1 quote
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn. — T.S. Eliot · 1920