StealLikeanArtist_10ThingsNobodyToldYouA.epub

Steal Like an Artist 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative Austin Kleon WORKMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY • NEW YORK For Boom—whenever Boom gets here CONTENTS 1. Steal Like an Artist. 2. Don’t Wait Until You Know Who You Are to Get Started. 3. Write the Book You Want to Read. 4. Use Your Hands. 5. Side Projects and Hobbies Are Important. 6. The Secret: Do Good Work and Share It with People. 7. Geography Is No Longer Our Master. 8. Be Nice. (The World Is a Small Town.) 9. Be Boring. (It’s the Only Way to Get Work Done.) 10. Creativity Is Subtraction. “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 It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. This book is me talking to a previous version of myself. These are things I’ve learned over almost a decade of trying to figure out how ......