As a graphic designer your pretty much taught the same way. The only way to survive and keep up with other designers is by taking ideas and manipulate them to your liking. Of course you need to be careful on what you take and manipulate since there are copyright laws. As long as you change something enough to your own design then you will be protected.
Its funny they mention Picasso since most of his cubism work is almost replications from Georges Braque. If you look at when the pieces were done Braque would come out with a painting then a year later Picasso would almost replicate it. It’s interesting though how Picasso became the more famous.
