Pablo Picasso is reported to have said: “good artists borrow, great artists steal.”
This quote often makes me wonder if ‘great artists’ isn’t a Spanish euphemism for ‘talentless c***s’ (maybe something got lost in the translation). George Bernard Shaw, the long winded playwright and rent-a-quote once said something similar about writers. It’s possible that Shaw got away with a lot of plagiarism because few people ever stay awake through any of his plays.