Picasso Quote by Walter Isaacson

“Picasso said “good artists copy but great artists steal.”

— Sean Patrick

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,

— Banksy

“As Pablo Picasso (no slouch at theft himself) put it, “Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.”

— Daniel Coyle

Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind…

— Austin Kleon

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then…

— Steve Jobs

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this…

— Quentin Tarantino

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

— Igor Stravinsky

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

— Pablo Picasso

There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.

— Pablo Picasso

“You know what Picasso says. ‘Bad artists copy, good artists steal.”

— Donna Tartt

No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art…

— David Hockney

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

— Walter Isaacson