Don’t Wait Until You Know You Are To Get Started It’s just what it sounds like - a file to keep track of the stuff you’ve swiped from others. Copy your favorite passages out of books. Get used to pulling it out and jotting down your thoughts and observations. You’ll either find a the answer or you’ll come up with a better question.Ĭarry a notebook and a pen with you wherever you go. You have to be curious about the world in which you live.ĭon’t ask a question before you Google it. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by. They only collect things they really love.

Not a hoarder, mind you, there’s a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. You are in, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” - Andrè Gide Nothing is completely original.Įverything that needs to be said has already been said.

All creative work builds on what came before. What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. They’re for everyone.” - Austin Kleon Steal Like an Artist “These are things I’ve learned over almost a decade of trying to figure out how to make art, but a funny thing happened when I started sharing them with others - I realized that they aren’t just for artists. Thankfully, I found Austin Kleon’s “ Steal Like an Artist” - an inspiring guide to creativity in the digital age and a book you can easily consume in one sitting. Something to jump start my idea muscle and reignite my creativity outside of the day gig. Even the novel I’m reading is laborious 750+ pages. My nightstand is currently filled with big, dense books. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of a feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.” - T.S. “Immature poets imitate mature posts steal bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

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