Nothing is original
“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”
—Jim Jarmusch
School Yourself
You have to curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else —that’s how you’ll get ahead.
Save your thefts for later
Take notes of everything that makes you curious, things that speak directly to your soul. Copy your favourite passages out of books.
See something worth stealing? Take notes.
Copy everything
Gary Panter say, “If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a HUNDRED people, everyone will say you’re so original!”
“The human hand is incapable of making a perfect copy”, this will give you a new original.
Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style.
You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.
Write the book you want to read
When we love a piece of work, we’re desperate for more.
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, do the work you want to see done.
Walk away from the screen
sketch. sketch. sketch. you will get the feel, of you’re actually making things.
Side projects and hobbies are important
If you have two or three real passions, don’t feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don’t discard. Keep all your passions in your life.
“Let them talk to each other. Something will begin to happen.”
One day, you’ll look back and it will all make sense.
The Secret: Do good work and share it with people
“It’s not that people are mean or cruel, they’re just busy.”
You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.
Write the book you want to read
When we love a piece of work, we’re desperate for more.
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, do the work you want to see done.
Walk away from the screen
sketch. sketch. sketch. you will get the feel, of you’re actually making things.
Side projects and hobbies are important
If you have two or three real passions, don’t feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don’t discard. Keep all your passions in your life.
“Let them talk to each other. Something will begin to happen.”
One day, you’ll look back and it will all make sense.
The Secret: Do good work and share it with people
“It’s not that people are mean or cruel, they’re just busy.”
Share with the internet.
Step 1: Wonder at something
Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you
You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about. If everybody’s wondering about apples, go wonder about oranges.
The more open you are about sharing your passions, the closer people will feel to your work.
People love it when you give your secrets away, and sometimes, if you’re smart about it, they’ll reward you by buying the things you’re selling.
Leave Home
It helpsp to live around interesting people, and not neccesarily people who do what you do
“Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changes, and that changes everything.” —Jonah Lehrer
Be Nice. (The world is a small town)
Make friends, ignore enemies. On the internet: Say nice things about them.
“Garbage in, garbage out.” You’re only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with.
You will need: curiosity, kindness, stamina, a willingness to look stupid
Harold Ramis says, “Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful.”
if you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
Marry well.
Who you marry is the most important decision you’ll ever make. And “marry well” doesn’t mean your life partner —it also means who you do business with, who you befriend, who you choose to be around. Relationship are hard enough, but it takes a real champion of a person to be married to someone who’s obsessed with a creative pursuit. Lots of times you have to be a maid, a cook, a motivational speaker, a mother, and an editor —all at one.
A good partner keeps you grounded. A friend once remarked that living with an artist must make our house very inspiring.
Step 1: Wonder at something
Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you
You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about. If everybody’s wondering about apples, go wonder about oranges.
The more open you are about sharing your passions, the closer people will feel to your work.
People love it when you give your secrets away, and sometimes, if you’re smart about it, they’ll reward you by buying the things you’re selling.
Leave Home
It helpsp to live around interesting people, and not neccesarily people who do what you do
“Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changes, and that changes everything.” —Jonah Lehrer
Be Nice. (The world is a small town)
Make friends, ignore enemies. On the internet: Say nice things about them.
“Garbage in, garbage out.” You’re only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with.
You will need: curiosity, kindness, stamina, a willingness to look stupid
Harold Ramis says, “Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful.”
if you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
Marry well.
Who you marry is the most important decision you’ll ever make. And “marry well” doesn’t mean your life partner —it also means who you do business with, who you befriend, who you choose to be around. Relationship are hard enough, but it takes a real champion of a person to be married to someone who’s obsessed with a creative pursuit. Lots of times you have to be a maid, a cook, a motivational speaker, a mother, and an editor —all at one.
A good partner keeps you grounded. A friend once remarked that living with an artist must make our house very inspiring.
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