{"id":284,"date":"2006-10-09T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=284"},"modified":"2006-10-10T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T16:57:24","slug":"immature-designers-imitate-mature-designers-steal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/10\/09\/immature-designers-imitate-mature-designers-steal\/","title":{"rendered":"Immature designers imitate; mature designers steal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am finishing an article on matching tile games, and the question of imitation and originality keeps coming up. I&#8217;ve often heard the idea of &#8220;the bad artist imitating, the good artist stealing&#8221; attributed to Picasso, but it is actually from T.S. Eliot in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/200\/sw11.html\">a 1922 essay<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spot on for game design: The good designer welds his or her theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad designer throws it into something which has no cohesion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am finishing an article on matching tile games, and the question of imitation and originality keeps coming up. I&#8217;ve often heard the idea of &#8220;the bad artist imitating, the good artist stealing&#8221; attributed to Picasso, but it is actually from T.S. Eliot in a 1922 essay: Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/10\/09\/immature-designers-imitate-mature-designers-steal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Immature designers imitate; mature designers steal.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}