Art is theft, Ctd Peter Brookes

@Blowercartoons ....and here's one I did earlier! pic.twitter.com/gdvqLmPCpR
— Peter Brookes (@BrookesTimes) July 5, 2013

"[Art and writing] is theft", Ctd

The above image is a compilation of two images, of which, the one on the right is plainly a "theft" of that on the left. Sourced here.

I've cited Maria Popova numerous times before, including here and here. Another time here. All on the creative process of writing and creating art. Then I featured Alexia Tsotsis here. I've done loads more which you can look around for.

This time it's Maria again. Who, writing here, again explained the laws that govern art:

"All creativity builds upon something that existed before and every work of art is essentially a derivative work."

"[Writing and] Art is theft", Ctd

Maria Popova puts it, citing Charles Eames, wonderfully:

'I’m particularly taken with this bit affirming remix culture and combinatorial creativity:

"[Is design] a creation of an individual?No — because to be realistic one must always admit the influence of those who have gone before." 

Read it here.

"[Writing] is theft" Ctd with Maria Popova: 'All creative work is derivative'

As Maria Popova said in Brainpickings:

"Even though in his 1890 book George Washington’s Rules of Civility Traced to Their Sources and Restored Moncure Daniel Conway notes that Washington generously “borrowed” the bulk of his rules from a 1595 French Jesuit book — a testament to the fact that everything builds on what came before — they remain fascinating in their own right as an ideological predecessor to the foundation of America’s democratic and moral ideals."

I repeat what Maria Popova said:

"Everything builds on what came before."

"[Writing] is theft" Ctd Thomas Jefferson, John Locke and the Declaration of Independence

From 6 minutes into his talk on one of the founding father of the United States Christopher Hitchens explains how much of the Declaration of Independence was inspired and even "plagiarized" in parts from the work of John Locke.