Artists Steal Quotes

#1. Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

Pablo Picasso

#2. Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Pablo Picasso

#3. The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.

Lionel Trilling

#4. Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Walter Isaacson

#5. The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

Banksy

#6. Immature artists imitate.
Mature artists steal.

Lionel Trilling

#7. Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

Ned Rorem

#8. It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

John Hawkes

#9. I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.

Michael Buble

#10. Every artist gets asked the question, "Where do you get your ideas?" The honest artist answers, "I steal them.

Austin Kleon

#11. Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

Peter Gabriel