Books: Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon

10 Rules To Steal Like An Artist

“Art is theft.”

—Pablo Picasso

Here are the 10 things nobody told you about being creative.

Steal Like An Artist.

Don’t Wait Until You Know Who You Are To Get Started.

Write The Book You Want To Read.

Use Your Hands.

Side Projects And Hobbies Are Important.

The Secret: Do Good Work And Share It With People.

Geography Is No Longer Our Master.

Be Nice. (The World Is A Small Town.)

Be Boring. (It’s The Only Way To Get Work Done.)

Creativity Is Subtraction.

From the cover: An inspiring guide to creativity in the digital age, STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST presents ten transformative principles that will help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life.

Nothing is original, so embrace the influence, school yourself through the work of others, remix and reimagine to discover your own path. Follow interests wherever they take you—what feels like a hobby may turn into your life’s work. Forget the old cliché about writing what you know: Instead, write the book you want to read, make the movie you want to watch.

And finally, stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring in the everyday world so that you have the space to be wild and daring in your imagination and your work.

Steal Like An Artist Review Austin Kleon

Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon

This is a great book to keep on your desk, coffee table, or private library for general reference and inspiration. Every internet marketer and creative professional will appreciate what this quick read has to offer in reminding you to use what you have experienced and share

What Austin is saying overall is that creativity is collaborative based on the context in which we live. There are no “original” ideas and many ways to say the “same” thing in different ways. Your way just may be an evolution of a concept or that could be a game changer for many others. Another concept of the book suggests that all ideas are based on or inspired by other ideas and works from others. Therefore, he emphasizes the ways to “steal” ideas in your own way, expanding on and improving upon concepts and content that make an impression on you in some way.

“Immature poets imitate;

mature poets steal;

bad poets deface what they take,

and good poets make it into

something different. The

good poet welds his theft into

a whole of feeling which is

unique, utterly different from

that which it was torn.”

—T.S. Elliot

October 10, 2017

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