Of course, Bizet borrowed folk tunes in composing Carmen .
Greek statues exist mainly because of Roman copies.
Lichtenstein mostly abandoned comic books as a source for inspiration after 1964, but returned to comic motifs toward the end of his career in the 1990s. Warhol and Lichtenstein both saw the day when artists stole their styles back. Lichtenstein s broad lines and Ben Day dots can be seen frequently in ads and on magazine covers today. In this case, art continues to imitate art. If Lichtenstein were still alive today, he couldn't get too mad about my swiping his style for many of my paintings.