"Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative" Quotes
"Steal Like an Artist" by Austin Kleon offers practical advice on unlocking creativity by embracing influence, experimentation, and self-expression.
nonfiction | 160 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
Creativity is subtraction.
The world is changing at such a rapid rate that it’s turning us all into amateurs.
You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself.
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read.
Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
It’s in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.
Side projects and hobbies are important.
The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like.
