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Home Art Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Polly, August 10, 2013

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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.

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