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Austin Kleon

  • RitaMargaritahas quoted2 years ago
    “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.”
  • RitaMargaritahas quoted2 years ago
    It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
  • RitaMargaritahas quoted2 years ago
    How does an artist look at the world?
    First, you figure out what’s worth stealing, then you move on to the next thing.
  • RitaMargaritahas quoted2 years ago
    “The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.”
    —David Bowie
  • RitaMargaritahas quoted2 years ago
    The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something “original,” nine out of ten times they just don’t know the references or the original sources involved.
  • RitaMargaritahas quoted2 years ago
    André Gide put it, “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
  • RitaMargaritahas quoted2 years ago
    You’re a remix of your mom and dad and all of your ancestors.
  • RitaMargaritahas quoted2 years ago
    You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.
    You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.
  • RitaMargaritahas quoted2 years ago
    We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
  • RitaMargaritahas quoted2 years ago
    There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income.
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