#Steal Like An Artist

[schizophrenic-klept-hoe-maniac]

One of my coolest lifts to date! I was so proud that day. Haul from last month.

EVERYTHING pictured/in the frame was lifted within 2 hours including the stacks of coloring books.

I am way too lazy to add up the total on this one, but it’s definitely …

Around <$3k~

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[mistovyee]

In the end, merely imitating your heroes is not flattering them. Transforming their work into something of your own is how you flatter them. Adding something to the world that only you can add.

From STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST by Austin kleon

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[blueyisszy]

“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.” —Yohji Yamamoto

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.” Thank goodness.

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don’t come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes.

We learn by copying. We’re talking about practice here, not plagiarism—plagiarism is trying to pass someone else’s work off as your own.

Copying is about reverse-engineering. It’s like a mechanic taking apart a car to see how it works.

We learn to write by copying down the alphabet. Musicians learn to play by practicing scales. Painters learn to paint by reproducing masterpieces.

Remember: Even The Beatles started as a cover band. Paul McCartney has said, “I emulated Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis. We all did.” McCartney and his partner John Lennon became one of the greatest songwriting teams in history, but as McCartney recalls, they only started writing their own songs “as a way to avoid other bands being able to play our set.”

As Salvador Dalí said, “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”

First, you have to figure out who to copy. Second, you have to figure out what to copy.

Who to copy is easy. You copy your heroes—the people you love, the people you’re inspired by, the people you want to be. The songwriter Nick Lowe says, “You start out by rewriting your hero’s catalog.”

And you don’t just steal from one of your heroes, you steal from all of them. The writer Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it’s plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it’s research. I once heard the cartoonist Gary Panter say, “If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!”

What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes. The reason to copy your heroes and their style is so that you might somehow get a glimpse into their minds.

That’s what you really want—to internalize their way of looking at the world. If you just mimic the surface of somebody’s work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

At some point, you’ll have to move from imitating your heroes to emulating them.

Imitation is about copying. Emulation is when imitation goes one step further, breaking through into your own thing.

“There isn’t a move that’s a new move.” The basketball star Kobe Bryant has admitted that all of his moves on the court were stolen from watching tapes of his heroes.

But initially, when Bryant stole a lot of those moves, he realized he couldn’t completely pull them off because he didn’t have the same body type as the guys he was thieving from. He had to adapt the moves to make them his own.

Conan O’Brien has talked about how comedians try to emulate their heroes, fall short, and end up doing their own thing.

Johnny Carson tried to be Jack Benny but ended up Johnny Carson. David Letterman tried to copy Johnny Carson but ended up David Letterman. And Conan O’Brien tried to be David Letterman but ended up Conan O’Brien.

In O’Brien’s words, “It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.” Thank goodness.

-Steal like an Artist.

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[shootwithheart]

A collage made with the help of my friends.

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[random-bookquotes]

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist

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[pattokarts]

In case someone else also needed this reminder. (From "Steal Like An Artist" by Austin Kleon)

I've recently been struggling again to find/see a common thread within my art. I just feel like I'm interested in too many things, want to do too many different projects all at once & kind of chameleon my way through different art works, adapting each & every time.

I don't think that's ever really gonna change, but I'm slowly trying to learn to accept & embrace it.

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[litteraturhistorikeren]

Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

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[olgadrebas]

🤪 Concept art for the movie "The Mask" was done in 1910 by Egon Schiele. This is what you call "to beat that deadline"! In the New Year of 2024 I wish everyone to nail dem deadlines no matter what👍🏼

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[n3pt0-0n]

Fun fact: most of my friends who have this book stole it from our art school

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[the-shooting-star]

Austin Kleon, Steal Like An Artist

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[dekleinekapitein]

After @austinkleon mentioned his love for brush pens in his newsletter and seeing the blogpost it linked to that he often draws ghosts until he knows what to write, I felt like taking my own pentel brush pen again.

Didn’t want to also do ghosts though, so I went with jellyfish. So here’s a bunch of random brush pen jellyfish in my little square sketchbook.

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[mistovyee]

From the book called STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST by Austin Kleon 

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[sarroora]

Another YouTube short I added to my channel. I LOVE book recommendations and I have a weakness to art books so feel free to give me your own lists. I’d love to make a part 2 & 3 of this sometime soon.

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[camtonguyen]

"Steal like an artist" is a self-help book for creatives, based on the premise that everything is a remix and that creative work is built on what has come before. The author claims that the best way to be creative is to embrace your influences, copy the work of those you admire, and make it your own.

The book is divided into ten chapters, each containing a piece of advice for creative people. The author emphasizes the importance of cultivating a creative practice, whether it's writing, drawing, or making music. He encourages readers to create a daily routine and to prioritize the act of creating over the desire for perfection. 

He also advises readers to share their work with others, even if it is not perfect, and to adopt the idea of "good theft" - taking inspiration from other creatives and making something new out of it. He argues that everything is a remix and that creativity is about making new connections between existing ideas.

Overall, this is a quick and easy read that offers practical advice for anyone looking to unlock their creative potential. It motivates readers to be bold, to take risks, and to trust in their instincts.

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[dailyinspiredquotes]

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[zanoob-hm]

العبرة ليست ” بالكتاب الذي تبدأ به ؟! “

‏بل بالكتاب الذي يقودك للبداية .

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