Steal Like An Artist

Unlock your creativity. An inspiring guide to creativity in the digital age, Steal Like an Artist presents ten transformative principles that will help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life. Nothing is original, so embrace influence, school yourself through the work of others, remix and reimagine to discover your own path. Follow interests wherever they take you—what feels like a hobby may turn into you life’s work. Forget the old cliché about writing what you know: Instead, write the book you want to read, make the movie you want to watch. And finally, stay Smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring in the everyday world so that you have the space to be wild and daring in your imagination and your work. “Brilliant and real and true.”—Rosanne Cash

From the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! comes an interactive journal and all-in-one logbook to get your creative juices flowing, and keep a record of your ideas and discoveries. The Steal Like an Artist Journal is the next step in your artistic journey. It combines Austin Kleon’s unique and compelling ideas with the physical quality that makes journals like Moleskines so enormously popular. Page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes, and exercises are like a daily course in creativity. There are lists to fill in—Ten Things I Want to Learn, Ten Things I Probably Think About More Than the Average Person. Challenges to take. Illustrated creative exercises—Make a Mixtape (for someone who doesn’t know you) and Fill in the Speech Balloons. Pro and con charts—What Excites You?/What Drains You? The journal has an elastic band for place-marking and a special pocket in the back—a “swipe file” to store bits and pieces of inspiration. Because if you want to steal like an artist, you need a place to keep your loot.

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting known. Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery—let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive. In chapters such as You Don’t Have to Be a Genius; Share Something Small Every Day; and Stick Around, Kleon creates a user’s manual for embracing the communal nature of creativity— what he calls the “ecology of talent.” From broader life lessons about work (you can’t find your voice if you don’t use it) to the etiquette of sharing—and the dangers of oversharing—to the practicalities of Internet life (build a good domain name; give credit when credit is due), it’s an inspiring manifesto for succeeding as any kind of artist or entrepreneur in the digital age.

Siapa bilang mencuri itu buruk? Mencuri adalah keharusan! Tak Percaya? Orang-orang hebat sudah membuktikannya. Bintang basket Kobe Bryant mengaku bahwa semua gerakannya di lapangan dia curi dari para idolanya. Untuk menciptakan komputer Mac, Steve Jobs mencuri ide dari Xerox. Beatles awalnya adalah band yang menyanyikan lagu-lagu penyanyi lain. Tak ada yang orisinal. Semua kreasi berasal dari sesuatu yang pernah ada. Dan kreativitas tidak pernah lahir begitu saja, butuh proses juga perlu diasah. Mencuri ide adalah awal menumbuhkannya. Kreatif adalah melihat dari sudut pandang berbeda. Kreatif adalah mampu menyiasati keterbatasan. Kreatif adalah menemukan solusi terbaik dari permasalahan. Buku ini mengembangkan kreativitasmu, siapa pun kamu, dalam bidang apa pun kamu berkarya. [Mizan, Noura Books, Terjemahan, Kreatif, Karya, Indonesia]

Unlock your creativity. An inspiring guide to creativity in the digital age, Steal Like an Artist presents ten transformative principles that will help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life. Nothing is original, so embrace influence, school yourself through the work of others, remix and reimagine to discover your own path. Follow interests wherever they take you - what feels like a hobby may turn into you life's work. Forget the old cliché about writing what you know: instead, write the book you want to read, make the movie you want to watch. And finally, stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring in the everyday world so that you have the space to be wild and daring in your imagination and your work..

In this 2012 book, author Austin Kleon approaches an often-considered taboo subject of the world of creative works: copying another's work. While most consider the idea of copying another's style or design to be wrong, Austin says it doesn't have to be. Instead, Kleon suggests that the best creative ideas come from building off of ideas that others have already had. Kleon suggests that creativity is everywhere and is for everyone, so even if you don't feel like you are as great of an author, painter, photographer, or whatever your chosen medium may be, you should still learn from the best and try your best to imitate their work. This, he says, is how everyone finds their own individual style. While discussing what he calls "the inevitability of influence," Kleon tells his readers to "live outside the vacuum," and just to have fun with their art. He says there is no such thing as an original idea in today's creative world. Instead, every artist is merely taking ideas from one another and adding their own stylistic elements. "You don't need to be a genius," he says. "You just need to be yourself." Throughout the book, which is organized into eleven major subheadings, Kleon tells us to create what we would enjoy in the hope that someone else will enjoy it, too. Instead of creating something popular or trendy to cater to the masses, we should instead simply create to please ourselves. After all, new trends are forged when people are willing to step outside of the box. The book, itself, is an easy and fun read and suitable for young adults as well as more seasoned artists.

Book Summary: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creativeby Austin Kleon

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 When we stop trying to be original, we can embrace influence instead of running away from it. We can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and instead embrace influence. #2 You are a mix of what you choose to allow into your life. You are the result of your influences. German writer Goethe said, We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. #3 The artist is a collector. He only collects things that he really loves. Your job is to collect good ideas, and the more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by. #4 You should try to study one thinker, writer, artist, or activist you love. Then find three people that thinker loved, and learn everything about them. This will help you feel part of a creative lineage.