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It's not trying to be edgy, it's riffing on a famous aphorism that is often attributed to Pablo Picasso. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal
by philipov 6y ago
It's not trying to be edgy, it's riffing on a famous aphorism that is often attributed to Pablo Picasso.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
- jdc 6y agoTLDR; it's probably T.S. Elliot and Stravinsky that deserve the credit.
- birdyrooster 6y agoIt was Steve Jobs /s
- dang 6y agoThat's one case where QI was weirdly noncommittal. It's obviously Eliot's line ("Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal"), with a couple words replaced. The Stravinsky reference came decades later and was second-hand anyhow.