Steal Like An Artist Quotes & Sayings

I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages. — Quentin Tarantino

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 unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn. — T. S. Eliot

You're ready. Start making stuff. — Austin Kleon

Clemency marvelled, trying a purple eyeshadow shot with gold sparkly bits on the back of her hand — Jill Mansell

Do good work and share it with people. — Austin Kleon

If there was no American prison in Iraq, there would be no Islamic State now. — Gwynne Dyer

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery. — Paul Theroux

I do know something. Just not with any certainty. — Anne Heche

We walked the length of Jackson Square, stopping to look at the work of a couple of artists who'd set up their sidewalk shops for the day.
"Look." Eugenie stopped in front of an acrylic painting of a mustached man with curly dark hair, hooded eyes, and a big hooked nose. He looked like he'd steal the hubcaps off your grandmother's Cadillac.
"It's Jean Lafitte, our most famous pirate," the artist said. "He was quite a character."
She had no idea. She also had badly missed the mark on his looks. His hair wasn't that curly, he'd been clean-shaven the whole time I'd known him, his nose was straight and in perfect proportion to the rest of his features, and he didn't have hooded black eyes. Still, he might find it entertaining. "How much?" I asked. — Suzanne Johnson

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics. — Julius Sumner Miller

Don't wait until you know who you are to get started. — Austin Kleon

My motto for creativity-
And remember, STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST. — Austin Kleon

You're going to have to go beyond yourself to keep him. That's a tiring thing. — Katie Crouch

In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down."- George Abbott — Austin Kleon