How To Steal Like an Artist

Hello Class!!
Today I got a link to this blog from a friend. I'd like you to read it quickly and think about it. Go to: "How To Steal Like an Artist (and 9 Other Things Nobody Told ME)"

There were two parts that have stuck with me as a writer: 

1) This quote: "We were kids without fathers…so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves…Our fathers were gone, usually because they just bounced, but we took their old records and used them to build something fresh." -Jay-Z, 

2) "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest."— T.S. Eliot, 1920

Think about yourself as an artist. Is anything NEW? Can we create new forms that haven't been created yet?

I would LOVE to hear your thoughts. 

Hope you had a great weekend!
Ms. Pfautz