# Copying Other People’s Art Can Boost Creativity, Study Finds (Artsy)

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**Created:** [April 21, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://www.smartermarx.com/t/copying-other-people-s-art-can-boost-creativity-study-finds-artsy/656 "2018-04-21T16:36:30Z")\
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Copying Other People’s Art Can Boost Creativity, Study Finds by Isaac Kaplan (Artsy)

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> **[Copying Other People’s Art Can Boost Creativity](https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-copying-peoples-art-boost-creativity)**
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> Research has found that copying artworks by others may be a viable strategy for unlocking creativity.

“_Creativity and copying appear to be polar opposites. Whereas creativity requires originality, free thinking, and new ideas, copying is just, well, copying. It seems unlikely then that there would be a link between replicating another artist’s work and being able to create new, novel work of your own. However, Kentaro Ishibashi and Takeshi Okada, an architect and a professor at the University of Tokyo in Japan respectively, have been researching this topic for several years, and they found that copying may help facilitate artistic creativity_.” -Isaac Kaplan