Steal, but mold it with your own voice.
Stealing art is the only way to grow and make connections between the world. It’s the only way to make great work.
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn.”
— T.S. Eliot
Ideas can be discovered anywhere. Connections can be made through everything that you experience in life.
Steal. You have to. It’s how you build up your vision of the world. It’s how you create your style.
Steal good thoughts. Steal good ideas. Steal what resonates with you. Steal what speaks to your soul.
But do not imitate. Do not deface. Do not steal from just one person.
Take those ideas and have them mold together.
Change them. Enhance them. Build upon them.
Add your voice. Add your touch. Add your soul.
Make the stolen art your own.
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