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Did Apple steal the Finder icon from Pablo Picasso?
- InclinedPlane 16y agoSomeone just got a subscription to Duh! magazine. Congrats. P.S. There's nothing wrong with being inspired by good art, even to the point of highly derivative imitation. Aping what others have done well is how things advance.
- jeremydavid 16y agoYes.
- zacman85 16y agoInspired by: probably. Stolen: absolutely not.
- pyre 16y agoThe style is obviously the same. I think the 'stolen' claim comes from the using not only the same style, but (in this instance) the same dual-color scheme on a face. I say that it's inspired, and not stolen. Though I find it interesting that the color scheme even came from Picasso. I assumed that it was just the style that was inspired by Picasso.
- devin 16y agoNothing is created in a vacuum. Good job for noticing the similarity but honestly, who cares?
- armandososa 16y agoI care. It actually fascinates me.
- armandososa 16y agoIt's funny that it was Picasso who said "Bad artists copy. Great artists steal" (http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3500 http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3500), a quote that Steve Jobs likes.
- lubos 16y ago"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." -- Pablo Picasso
- lubos 16y agoSteve Jobs: "And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
- vamsee 16y agoIf you'd call that an "idea".
- macco 16y agoI think cubism was hell of an idea. Probably an idea of an genius. :)
- ntoshev 16y agoSo what is the difference between copying and stealing according to Picasso and Steve Jobs? How do people interpret this? I can think of a possible answer but I'm not sure this is what other people think.
- beej71 16y ago"Picasso had a saying, he said, 'Good artists copy; great artists steal', you know, and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." --Steve Jobs So that's about all there is to say about that.
- pg 16y agoI would be surprised if Picasso was the first to do this. If you play around with permutations of faces, it's probably in the first 1000 things you'd come up with, if not the first 100. So while the answer could be yes, Occam's Razor implies it's no.
- macco 16y agoWhere is this a stolen piece. If they did the whole picture it would stolen, if they took a certain part of the picture it would be stolen, but the didn't. The picture of Picasso is just awesome, the Finder icon is ok, could be drawn by a kid.