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"Good composers borrow, great composers steal"
by sodosopa 8y ago
"Good composers borrow, great composers steal"
- baroffoos 8y agoAnd then when your stealing is successful enough you have the laws changed so no one can do the same as you did.
- PavlovsCat 8y agoFB doesn't imitate and improve, it steals and spoils. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/ > great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil > 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. > If you see a great master, you will always find that he used what was good in his predecessors, and that it was this which made him great.