Great artists steals

TL;DR Stealing ≠ Copying the exact same thing

Steve Jobs who famously said in 1996: "Picasso had a saying -- 'good artists copy; great artists steal' -and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

This saying regularly inspires artists, creators, and thinkers. But in the real world, what does it mean?

Does "Plagiarizing" or "Copying" (which people think "Stealing" means) makes anyone a great artist? Well then what's left? A Lot.

First let us see billion dollars ideas that were stolen

So what is it? Does one become creative by stealing the idea of others?

The answer is No! and Yes!

Let's get deeper here -

Great artists select pieces of creativity from other artist's work and use them into their own recipe to create unique solutions.

Because in reality if you have got an unique idea to build/create, the possibility is that someone probably had the same idea, 1 thousand year earlier.

If you look closely most of the products we use today on a daily basis are inspirations taken from each other and one or the other have built some unique set of functionalities which have highly driven us to use them each and every day.

A high chunk of the population assumes they have to come up with something exclusively UNIQUE and they set the bar impossibly high for themselves, which ends up with a thought of not being creative enough.

Your creativity ends when you stop looking out for inspirations and adding your own magic to it. So keep looking for the things which inspire you and makes you awestruck, and don't hesitate to take inspiration either as you never know you might just be building the next billion dollars idea ;).

Key take-away -

Experimentations are essential but never wait or search to build something unique always.