Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative — Book Notes

Austin Kleon

Published: 2012

What This Book Is About:

This book will dispel myths about being creative, and also teach you 10 different ways you can use today to become MORE creative.

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Big Lessons (or tl;dr version):

• Keep working, don’t stop. Inspire yourself by keeping a praise file.
• Limitations inspire creativity.
• Collect good ideas. Steal them. An artist is but a collector of great ideas and a master of remixing.
• Create the thing you want to see.
• Use your hands. Create something physical.
• You can learn from anyone, be inspired by anyone, talk to anyone. With the Internet, geography is no longer our master.

Quotes Compilation from this book:

“Art is theft.”

• Pablo Picasso

“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

“All advice is…