"Appropriation is a totally and actual way of creating. Every field works to a certain extent in that way, and I think one is absolved of being a thief or a fraud when one fesses up to what informs one’s work. I always get this quote from Chanel wrong, but the gist of it is that he who insists on his own creativity has no memory. I don’t think it’s necessary to say how fantastically original one is, and if one does, one only has to dig in the past to find out who came up with that idea. Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it’s not necessary to be radical all the time."
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