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Nothing new under the sun?

Started by Aos, December 04, 2011, 11:13:30 PM

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Glazer

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December 07, 2011, 12:06:55 PM
There’s a quote that goes something along the lines of ‘good artists copy, great artists steal’. I’ve seen it attributed to various people, but mainly Picasso. Ironically it seems that this quote was stolen by Picasso from TS Eliot, who said:

Quote“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."

This applies to rpgs just as much as Eliot’s poetry and Picasso’s artwork. Great, nickable ideas can be found almost anywhere, from D&D through to Apocalypse World. The trick is to take these ideas and use them to make something different.
Glazer

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Kaldric

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December 07, 2011, 11:56:28 PM
It's Eliot, writing about Massinger, who wrote on the heels of Shakespeare, Kyd, Marlowe.
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