Good artists copy; great artists steal.
Los buenos artistas copian, los grandes artistas roban.
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Pablo Picasso
Born in Malaga in 1881, Picasso co-founded Cubism and transformed 20th-century art. He left some fifty thousand works and reinvented his style every few years; Guernica remains the defining anti-war image.
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