These artists stole some of film's fire and accessibility.

It's trite but true, great artists steal...but when they do they create great art.

Pablo Picasso had already refined this notion as early as the 1930's, when he said, "Mediocre artists borrow; great artists steal."

At the time, physicians and artists stole bodies from new graves for their studies.

Apple copied things from Android, hell Steve Jobs said that great artists steal, perhaps he only meant that when he was the one stealing?

Harmattan impersonates Jobs/Picasso/whomever's motto: Good artists copy, great artist steal.

Mature artists steal.

That's right, no one has ever used the expression "good artists copy, great artists steal" in a cheeky fashion before.

Every artist steals or emulates or parodies something.

A mysterious artist, Ronnie Mason, steals a dead woman's wedding ring and money and leaves a fake suicide note.