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• ‘A self-described art thief’: how Wayne Thiebaud channeled other artists

  16-04-2025 19:20 via theguardian.com
  
  The late painter was known for his masterly reinterpretations of famous works but also his own, wide-ranging originalsProbably the most famous thing that Pablo Picasso never said was: “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” The quote, which has been widely misattributed to the Spaniard, as well as TS Eliot and even Steve Jobs, among a long list of famous thinkers, is so popular because it encapsulates a seeming truism about artists: if your influences are ascertainable, you must no
  
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• My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph

  16-04-2025 13:56 via theguardian.com
  ‘Their lives were getting harder, even with help. They did not want to go to a nursing home and neither wanted to live without the other. So they left this life together’This is a photo of my parents right after their deaths, in Assen, the Netherlands, on 1 May 2024. My father Klaas Roemers was 90, my mother Fenny Roemers-Visser was 86.They had a good life and a very happy marriage, but the last years were difficult. They were both sick and exhausted. Both had heart failure, my mothe
  
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