October 28, 2013

Art is theft, Ctd

Austin Kleon put it in especially fluent terms: "Nothing is completely original. All artists’ work builds on what came before. Every new idea is just a remix or a mashup of two previous ideas." As designer Paula Scher said: "You are a mashup of what you let into your life."

Via Maria Popova on Brain Pickings here

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