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Did Apple steal the Finder icon from Pablo Picasso?

13 pointsby jeffmillerover 14 years ago

9 comments

pgover 14 years ago
I would be surprised if Picasso was the first to do this. If you play around with permutations of faces, it's probably in the first 1000 things you'd come up with, if not the first 100. So while the answer could be yes, Occam's Razor implies it's no.
zacman85over 14 years ago
Inspired by: probably. Stolen: absolutely not.
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armandososaover 14 years ago
It's funny that it was Picasso who said "Bad artists copy. Great artists steal" (<a href="http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3500" rel="nofollow">http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3500</a>), a quote that Steve Jobs likes.
lubosover 14 years ago
"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." -- Pablo Picasso
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maccoover 14 years ago
Where is this a stolen piece. If they did the whole picture it would stolen, if they took a certain part of the picture it would be stolen, but the didn't. The picture of Picasso is just awesome, the Finder icon is ok, could be drawn by a kid.
beej71over 14 years ago
"Picasso had a saying, he said, 'Good artists copy; great artists steal', you know, and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." --Steve Jobs<p>So that's about all there is to say about that.
InclinedPlaneover 14 years ago
Someone just got a subscription to Duh! magazine. Congrats.<p>P.S. There's nothing wrong with being inspired by good art, even to the point of highly derivative imitation. Aping what others have done well is how things advance.
devinover 14 years ago
Nothing is created in a vacuum. Good job for noticing the similarity but honestly, who cares?
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jeremydavidover 14 years ago
Yes.