Pseudo-Pablo-Picasso-Zitat. |
Inzwischen wird dieser Aphorismus, über dessen Interpretation viel gestritten wird (Link), manchmal Steve Jobs selbst zugeschrieben.
Pseudo-Steve-Jobs-Zitat. |
1892
- "Die großen Dichter ahmen nach und verbessern, während die kleinen stehlen und verschlechtern."
W. H. Davenport Adams, 1892 (Quoteinvestigator)
- "Unreife Dichter
imitieren; reife Dichter stehlen."
T. S. Eliot: "Philip Massinger" (Link)
- "Unreife Künstler entlehnen, reife Künstler stehlen."
Marvin Magalaner paraphrasiert T.S. Eliot (Quoteinvestigator)
1996, Steve Jobs:
- I mean Picasso had a saying he said good artists copy great
artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas ehm
and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on
it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also
happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.
Steve Jobs, June 1996, PBS TV special, Transcript (Link)
Ich empfehle dazu den ausführlicheren Artikel von Garson O’Toole, dem wir viele Entdeckungen zur Entwicklung dieses Spruchs verdanken.
2015
- "Good artists copy; great artists steal; and most marketers misattribute."
Jeremy Arnold Quora.com
Quellen:
Garson O'Toole: "Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations." Little A, New York: 2017, S. 17-23
Garson O’Toole, Quoteinvestigator: "Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal. Steve Jobs? Pablo Picasso? T. S. Eliot? W. H. Davenport Adams? Lionel Trilling? Igor Stravinsky? William Faulkner? Apocryphal?" 2013 (Link)
T. S. Eliot: "Philip Massinger" in: The Sacred Wood. Essays On Poetry and Criticism. Methuen and Co., London: 1920, p. 114 Archive.org, (Link)
Steve Jobs, 1996: "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires", PBS TV special, June 1996, Transcript Part III (Link) (1. Dez. 2017)
Garson O’Toole, Quoteinvestigator: "Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal. Steve Jobs? Pablo Picasso? T. S. Eliot? W. H. Davenport Adams? Lionel Trilling? Igor Stravinsky? William Faulkner? Apocryphal?" 2013 (Link)
T. S. Eliot: "Philip Massinger" in: The Sacred Wood. Essays On Poetry and Criticism. Methuen and Co., London: 1920, p. 114 Archive.org, (Link)
Steve Jobs, 1996: "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires", PBS TV special, June 1996, Transcript Part III (Link) (1. Dez. 2017)
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Dank:
Ich danke, wie so oft, Garson O'Toole.