Following on from my School of Life Sermon on Originality and Copying, here's a nice quote (HT Alex)
"My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode away ahead of the herd and was sort of the look out. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack in the middle of the herd. If you are, you''l be the richest"
As Faris has constantly reminded us (following Picasso's dictum), talent copies but genius steals.