Samenvatting Steal like an artist - Austin Kleon

Anaïs Cai




Steal like an artist – Austin Kleon

, Anaïs Cai


1 Steal like an artist
How to look at the world (like an artist)
Question:
Where do you get your ideas? => I steal them

How does an artist look at the world?
1. You figure out what’s worth stealing
2. Move on to the next thing
ð You stop worrying about what’s good and bad à always stuff worth (not) stealing


Nothing is original
Nothing comes from nowhere à all creative work builds on what came before
ð nothing is completely original
ð we can embrace influence instead of running away from it


The genealogy of ideas
Every new idea is just a mashup of one or more previous ideas

Bv. Two parallel lines




à how many lines? 1+1 = 3 (first line & second line + the space in between)

Bv. Genetics
à you are a mashup of what you choose to let into your life


Garbage in, garbage out
= your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can
choose from to be influenced by.

Artist is a collector, not a boarder
à hoarders collect indiscriminately
à artists collect selectively = only things that they really love