“The sequel always sucks compared to the sequel in our heads.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“It's better to burn out than fade away.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“School is one thing, education is another. The two dont always overlap. Whether you are in school or not, ts always your job to get yourself an education.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist
“School is one thing, education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you are in school or not, it is always your job to get yourself an education.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist
“Share something small every day.”
Source: The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy
“You do not need to have an extraordinary life to make extraordinary work.”
Source: The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy
“To be on brand is to be 100% certain of who you are and what you do, and certainly, in art and in life, is not only completely overrated, it is also a roadblock to discovery. Uncertainty is the very thing that art thrives on.”
Source: Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
“Artists need pockets.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“If you don't find something worth stealing today, you might find it worth stealing tomorrow or a month or a year from now.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“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.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“When you share your knowledge and your work with others, you receive an education in return.”
Source: Show Your Work!
“Teach what you know.”
Source: The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy
“Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes or look
ridiculous in public. They're in love, so they don't hesitate to do work that others think of as silly or just plain stupid. [...] Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing
nothing.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“El artista es un coleccionista, no un acumulador y claro que hay una diferencia: los acumuladores coleccionan indiscriminadamente, los artistas lo hacen selectivamente, solo coleccionan cosas que de verdad les gustan”.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“«Todas las ideas que se nos ocurren cotidianamente, son por lo general una mezcla de ideas previas, experiencias personales, feedback que recibimos por parte de colegas, etc.».”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“«El manifiesto es este: dibuja el arte que quieres ver, empieza el negocio que quieres administrar, toca la música que quieres oír, escribe los libros que quieres leer, crea los productos que quieres usar. haz el trabajo que quieres que se haga».”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Cuando abres al público tu proceso creativo e invitas a la gente, aprendes mucho”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“America
became a dirty word
in 1492
when
we
landed”
Source: (Newspaper Blackout) [By: Kleon, Austin] [May, 2010]
“What's exciting about the poems is that by destroying writing you can create new writing.”
Source: (Newspaper Blackout) [By: Kleon, Austin] [May, 2010]
“We all love things that other people think are garbage. You have to have the courage to keep loving your garbage, because what makes us unique is the diversity and breadth of our influences, the unique ways in which we mix up the parts of culture others have deemed “high” and the “low.”
When you find things you genuinely enjoy, don’t let anyone else make you feel bad about it. Don’t feel guilty about the pleasure you take in the things you enjoy. Celebrate them.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“The trouble with imaginative people is that we're good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“You have to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Everybody loves a good story, but good storytelling doesn't come easy to everybody. It's a skill that takes a lifetime to master. So study the great stories and then go find some of your own. Your stories will get better the more you tell them.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“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.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Be ambitious. Keep yourself busy. Think bigger. Expand your audience. Don't hobble yourself in the name of "keeping it real," or "not selling out." Try new things. If an opportunity comes along that will allow you to do more of the kind of work you want to do, say Yes. If an opportunity comes long that would mean more money, but less of the kind of work you want to do, say No.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you'll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It's that simple.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“Human beings want to know where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work, and how people feel an what they understand about your work effects how they value it.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“If you have two or three real passions, don't feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“If you look to artists who've managed to achieve lifelong careers, you detect the same pattern: They all have been able to persevere, regardless of success or failure.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“In the meantime, if you're not into the world you live in, you can build your own world around you.[...]Surround yourself with books and objects that you love. Tape things up on the wall. Create your own world.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Think about your favourite work and your creative heroes. What did they miss? What didn't they make? What could've been made better? If they were still alive, what would they be making today? If all your favourite makers got together and collaborated, what would they make with you leading the crew?”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down."- George Abbott”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people like one of his tubes of oil paints. You's have a great time hanging out all day with Picasso, and then you's go home nervous and exhausted, and Picasso would go back to his studio and paint all night, using the energy he'd sucked out of you.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“Don't feel guilty about the pleasures you take in the things you enjoy.”
“When you get rid of old material, you push yourself further and come up with something better.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can’t steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that’s how you will find your voice. And that’s how you begin. And then one day someone will steal from you.”
“The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“So go in, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Criatividade não é apenas o que escolhemos usar, são as coisas que escolhemos deixar de fora.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Don't worry about doing research. Just search.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.”
“Copying is about reverse-engineering.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Find the most talented person in the room, and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Become a documentarian of what you do.”
Source: Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
“When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
