Kanye West: Been caught stealing? Critics are hailing the hip-hop artist's new album Yeezus as boundary-pushing....Kanye West’s Yeezus and the art of stealing

Kanye West

“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” That quote has been variously attributed to people who are, indisputably, great artists: T.S. Eliot and Picasso, for starters. Those who create at a high level will be the first to acknowledge that even their greatest works aren’t completely original. It’s just that some artists are better than others when it comes to appropriating the past and incorporating it into their own work. READ More...