You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with t...
You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.
When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist, the book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, col- lect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination.
Austin Kleon is a writer and artist. He is the author of the found poetry collection, Newspaper Blackout (“brilliant,” New York Magazine), and his work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS NewsHour, The Wall Street Journal, and the art website, 20x200.com. He speaks about creativity and being an artist online for organizations such as SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. H...
Austin Kleon is a writer and artist. He is the author of the found poetry collection, Newspaper Blackout (“brilliant,” New York Magazine), and his work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS NewsHour, The Wall Street Journal, and the art website, 20x200.com. He speaks about creativity and being an artist online for organizations such as SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. He lives in Austin and online at www.austinkleon.com.
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)
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)
1. Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again. 2. What are shaped and fashioned by what we love. -Goethe 3. Garbage in, garbage out 4. School is one thing, education is another. ...
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主观推荐度：⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 这本书的特点是图文并茂、语言幽默、内容深刻。由此可见，作者Austin Kleon是一个非常有趣的人。这本书的副标题是10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative，表面上这是一本帮助读者提升创造力的书，但其实我觉得...
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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 uniqu...
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Austin Kleon 是一位会画画的作家，他的三部曲Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work, Keep Going。这是三本连贯、短小精悍的小书，总结了想法从哪里来，分享你的想法和继续完成你的想法的过程。 1.好点子都是偷来的 好想法是偷来的，所谓日光之下并无新事，我们摆脱原创的负担...
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这里的艺术家不是艺术家，steal 也不是steal. Artists 是指人生赢家，steal 其实是向比你牛逼的的人学习。 圣经说，太阳底下nothing new,你不能create things out of nothing,一切都只是重复前人说过的东西，区别仅在于你有没有听过。 So本书提出了一些能让你like an artist(...
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中信出版社、上海人民美术出版社2017版
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1 有用 大士かっこいい 2014-04-11 00:06:57
Don't wait until you know who you are to get started. 这本书简单来看也是一本教人工作和思考的书, 随意浏览一下却发现了很多新颖的看法.. 不错,尤其那些涂报纸的短句, 蛮有意思... 比起同类型的书,这本至少有趣味的多
3 有用 小安 2015-11-02 23:44:23
"Everything that needs to be said has already been said." "Fake it 'til you make it."
1 有用 采花贼欧亨利 2014-03-20 17:48:15
好书强烈推荐～
1 有用 大金镯子 2016-05-29 18:02:07
打发一下时间还不错哦
0 有用 节奏 2013-05-06 05:56:13
这就是教科书上学不到的东西。太棒了。好像一个大叔在掏心窝把他的经验告诉你。很薄，1个多小时就读完了，但是肯定在未来会读很多遍的。