Nothing Is Completely Original So Steal Like an Artist

Nothing is original, so embrace influence, school yourself through the work of others, remix, and reimagine to discover your own path.

An artist looks at the world by figuring out what’s worth stealing and then moves on to the next thing. 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.

“Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.”

“Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.”

Study everything there is to know about one thinker. Then find three people that the thinker loved, and find out everything about them. 

Repeat this as many times as you can.

Plagiarism is trying to pass someone else’s work off as your own. Copying is about reverse-engineering.

“In this age of information abundance and overload, those who get ahead will be the folks who figure out what to leave out, so they can concentrate on what’s really important to them.”

Steal like an artist

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative is a book on coming up with creative ideas written by Austin Kleon and published in 2012 by Workman Publishing. The book has since then become a New York Times Bestseller.

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