Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
Make stuff every day. Know you’re going to suck for a while.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
You can’t go looking for validation from external sources. Once you put your work into the world, you have no control over the way people will react to it.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
never take my shirts to the cleaners. I love ironing my shirts—it’s so boring, I almost always get good ideas.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
A logbook isn’t necessarily a diary or a journal, it’s just a little book in which you list the things you do every day.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Who you marry is the most important decision you’ll ever make. And “marry well” doesn’t just mean your life partner—it also means who you do business with, who you befriend, who you choose to be around.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Complain about the way other people make software by making software.”
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
strips, because once the computer is involved, “things are on an inevitable path to being finished. Whereas in my sketchbook the possibilities are endless.”
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
One is reminded of Maria Schneider and her composition process. But also there is Pat Metheny and Jacob Collier who uses computer heavily earlier in their process. So it seems really a personal choice, but he's got a point.
When you get sick of one project, move over to another, and when you’re sick of that one, move back to the project you left. Practice productive procrastination.