Great Artists Steal: How Artists Really Get Their Ideas

From the accidental to the purposeful, the innocent to the brazen, discover all the ways famous artists have begged and borrowed their way to greatness.

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal."—Pablo Picasso

The great masters of art earned their reputation for supposedly taking art in entirely new directions—for pioneering new techniques, breaking with tradition, and busting norms—but behind almost every famous artwork you can find influence and inspiration artfully "stolen" from elsew...