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Austin Kleon & Art Theft — World Headquarters of Me pg204
Colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic
Funny thing was, every time I panicked and went looking for a ‘real’ job, a lucrative commission or art sale would land in my hand to feed the beast. There were feast months and famine months in cycles that waxed and waned. By now I was accustom to the untethered vagaries of entrepreneurial life, and the see sawing uncertainties of paying the bills by the first of every month. The wolf was at the door. Heck, she slept at the base of my bed. But she was a good wolf, and somehow it worked out. This went on for the next thirteen years, and it averaged out that life was more than okay most of the time. — From Chapter 11
In his wonderful little guidebook ‘Steal Like an Artist’, Austin Kleon assures us, “What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is original.” Austin also says, “The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from”… which is a quote stolen from David Bowie. When Austin’s book came out in 2012, every page sparked an affirmation that my life was on track, and gave me a…
