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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
Steal Like an Artist.
Don’t Wait Until You Know Who You Are to Get Started.
Write the Book You Want to Read.
Use Your Hands.
Side Projects and Hobbies Are Important.
The Secret: Do Good Work and Share It with People.
Geography Is No Longer Our Master.
Be Nice. (The World Is a Small Town.)
Be Boring. (It’s the Only Way to Get Work Done.)
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 to make art, but a funny thing happened when I started sharing them with others—I realized that they aren’t just for artists. They’re for everyone.
These ideas apply to anyone who’s trying to inject some creativity into their life and their work. (That should describe all of us.)
In other words: This book is for you.
Whoever you are, whatever you make.
Let’s get started.
Every artist gets asked the question,
“Where do you get your ideas?”
The honest artist answers,
“I steal them.”
How does an artist look at the world?
First, you figure out what’s worth stealing, then you move on to the next thing.
That’s about all there is to it.
When you look at the world this way, you stop worrying about what’s “good” and what’s “bad”—there’s only stuff worth stealing, and stuff that’s not worth stealing.
Everything is up for grabs. If you don’t find something worth stealing today, you might find it worth stealing tomorrow or a month or a year from now.
“The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.”
—
David Bowie
The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something “original,” nine out of ten times they just don’t know the references or the original sources involved.
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.
It’s right there in the Bible: “There is nothing ............

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