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How to Steal Like an Artist and Nine Other Things Nobody Told Me

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This is a pretty interesting article by Austin Kleon about being creative and thinking like an artist.  It left me feeling kind of inspired, and I’m a pretty apathetic guy so that’s got to count for something.

How To Steal Like An Artist...

…And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me, by Austin Kleod.

Advice on, well… How to steal like an artist and not some creep who sits behind your desk all throughout the year peering over your work and making exact replicas.

Got you far, didn’t it love.

WEBSITE HERE.

“You're only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.”

—Austin Kleon

How To Steal Like an Artist, by Austin Kleon [link]

austinkleon.com

My favourite is “Be boring (it’s the only way to get work done)”. (Anybody else know any artists who like to wear black and spend a lot of time publically brooding because they think that  makes them more creative? How does anyone have any time to be creative if you’re constantly trying to prove that you are? Or, as Kleon says, “The thing is: art takes a lot of energy to make. You don’t have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.”)

“Umelec je zberateľ, ale nie šmelinár. Je v tom rozdiel: šmelinár zbiera všetko, ale umelec si vyberá – zbiera veci, ktoré miluje.”

—Austin Kleon (zo skvelého článku: Kradnite ako umelci)
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