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Creativity Lies: The Originality Lie

The Most Popular Creativity Lie

If everyone’s stealing, should you do it too? Yes.

Michael Lee
Nov 5 · 5 min read

The quote on the stone in the picture above is popularly attributed to Pablo Picasso, who knew he was a great artist. So the words are an admission of guilt, though no great admission; we all know that Picasso “stole” the African aesthetic…

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