Steal Like an Artist

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• Fake it 'til you make it I love this phase. There are two ways to read it: 1 Pretend to be something you're not until you are -- fake it until you're successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them to; or 2 Pretend to be making something until you actually make something. I love both things -- you have to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing. I also love the book Just Kids by the musician Patti Smith. It's a story about how two friends who wanted to be artists moved to New York. You know how they learned to be artists? "You start out as a phony and become real." -- Glenn O'Brien (查看原文)

  Ying 2 回复 14赞 2013-05-06 11:06:26

• Marcel Duchamp said, "I don't believe in art. I believe in artists." This is actually a pretty good method for studying -- if you try to devour the history of your discipline all at once, you'll choke. Instead, chew on one thinker -- writer, artist, activist, role model -- you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker. Then find three people that thinker loved, and find out everything about them. Repeat this as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you build your tree, it's time to start your own branch. (查看原文)

  Ying 6赞 2013-05-06 10:26:47

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