Plagiarism in the glass art world.

It's about time I blogged a blog so here's a story about Dale Chihuly in relation to the current court case he is bringing against two glass blowers for imitating his creations inspired by the sea. Can sea forms belong to one person, runs the defence.

On the site I am linking to (but don't necessarily endorse), Chihuly is quoted as saying, 'Good artists borrow ideas. Great artists steal them.' Which, of course, isn't original. Before him is Stravinsky with, ‘A good composer does not imitate, he steals.’ Or Picasso’s notorious assertion that ‘minor artists borrow, great artists steal’ or T. S. Eliot with ‘Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.'

So I am not stealing a picture of his work, but using one of yours truly with friend at Kew.