Roba como un artista

Escrito por Austin Kleon

Narrado por Sergio Mejía

En este libro, Austin Kleon te comparte diez principios para descubrir tu lado artístico.

De Austin Kleon, el autor de la colección de poesía Newspaper blackout.

Roba como un artista presenta diez principios que ayudarán a los lectores a descubrir su lado artístico y a tener una vida mucho más creativa.

Nada es original, dice el autor, así que mejor acepta las influencias, instrúyete en el trabajo de los demás, reimagina y mezcla tu propio camino. Encuentra un pasatiempo que ames y conviértelo en tu trabajo: escribe el libro que te gustaría leer y la película que te gustaría ver. Y pues, ya sabes: no te endeudes, come sano, actúa con sentido común, ¡y atrévete a ser aventado y osado!

No importa si eres un artista gráfico, musical o de óleo, un artista de algún deporte, un escritor, pintor o diseñador...la creatividad se escapa fácilmente de cualquier mente. Sólo necesitas los diez pasos de Austin Kleon para poner en orden desde tu mente hasta tu escritorio y recuperar la creatividad y la confianza en aquello que creas.

¿Las diez cosas que necesitas para desatar tu creatividad?:

1. Roba como un artista.

2. No esperes hasta saber quién eres para poner las cosas en marcha.

3. Escribe el libro que quieres leer.

4. Usa tus manos.

5. Los proyectos extras y los hobbies son importantes.

6. El secreto: Haz un buen trabajo y compártelo.

7. La geografía ya no manda.

8. Sé amable. (El mundo es un pañuelo).

9. Sé aburrido. (Es la única forma de trabajar.).

10. Creatividad también es restar.

Lo que ha dicho la crítica:

"El libro en su conjunto resulta tremendamente divertido y entretenido". -Sarah Manzano, Papel en blanco.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Penguin Random House Audio
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 6 jun 2024
• ISBN: 9786073847469

Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon es un escritor que dibuja. Sus libros, Roba como un artista , Aprende a promocionar tu trabajo y Roba como un artista. El diario han vendido más de un millón de ejemplares. También es autor de la colección de poesía redactada Newspaper Blackout. Su trabajo ha sido presentado en Morning Edition de la NPR, NewsHour de la PBS, The New York Times y The Wall Street Journal. Imparte conferencias sobre la creatividad en la era digital para organizaciones como Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx y The Economist. Vive con su familia en Austin, Texas.

Comentarios para Roba como un artista

[tgraettinger_1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Simple wisdom in a simple package - but very thoughtful and encouraging. Loved the whole trilogy.

[spiffyhink · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This is a very short read that basically solidifies everything I've learn on my own about being consistently creative and getting things done. If you're younger and are looking at getting started with things, this is exactly what I would give as advice (in fact, I've given a few of these tips to my kids already).

[raggedyme · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

The book has a very good message and its presented in a cute way. It's a fairly short book.

[thegalaxygirl · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Yeah, I liked it. Because art is all about taking what you find in life and using it to make your own stuff. There is no such thing as cultural appropriation in art, IMHO. It's all grist for the mill.

[publiusdb-1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

This is the book that frees you up to be the artist you want to be, even--or especially--if that means you are imitating (what Kleon calls "stealing") your heroes. Don't let criticism, finances, or fear get in the way. Just create that thing, stealing from the greats along the way, and make your mark on the world.

I've read a lot of books on writing, from Stephen King's "On Writing" (indispensable) to "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield (I love this book), Jeff Vandermeer's "Wonderbook" (weird and inspirational) to a "Reading Like a Writer" by Francis Prose, and a whole host of practical books on mechanics (think "The Scribner Handbook for Writers," for example). There are a plethora of books on writing out there. So why do we need one more?

Trust me, we need one more. Or at least, it doesn't hurt. Kleon's is so light and accessible, you could almost forget that writing is actually hard, that it requires effort, and that the ideas don't just flow out of your fingers. But you might feel that way after you read it. You might remember the idea you had while reading an article last week, or the inspiration that came while sitting in traffic, or the feelings that a certain novel created as you read past your bedtime.

Yeah, it's got that effect. It might make you want to go out and create something.

Maybe even something you've stolen from one of the greats.

[castlelass · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

This book is directed at artists, but really includes general tips for leading a productive life. Anyone can benefit from adopting several of the author’s suggestions. I almost did not read this book due to the title, but it does not encourage plagiarism or literal stealing of others’ intellectual property. Instead, it shows how artists can learn from masters by copying them initially, leading to establishing one’s own body of work. The author recommends gathering ideas you like and turning them into something meaningful to you. It is a little too focused on the online world for my taste. There is nothing particularly new in this advice, but it offers helpful reminders. I liked it and found it worthwhile.

[hskey-1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I liked it! The format, font and pictures keep it light and I found a few things in here that I already do to try and spur my creative side, and a few other tips I will definitely be trying. Read this for our company book club, looking forward to discussing it with a group of very creative people.

[antao-3 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I find the most creative approach to meetings for example is not to go. Been not going to meetings for years now; saved a lot of time...

One must exercise the mind as much as the body in order for it to opened and strong enough to be able to direct outside influences into the formulation of one's own ideas. Creativity in every form is essential to the well being of humanity. Imagine a world without paintings, music, literature and all the creative disciplines. It would be a hell on earth. The most important thing is to want to create and the next to find a way of doing so. Creativity sustains life itself. If I am truly inspired , creativity flows like water. It's when I'm not inspired, I have to rely on technique . People can use anger and competition to inspire, and I have used those things, but love and beautiful nature and other artists are more fulfilling to me. Performing is one of the biggest rushes out here. The beach populated by people, and for me, young beautiful women, is very inspiring from afar, I don't want to know them, but, I am inspired by them. Let's face it, the opposite sex, or whatever your preferable sex partner, it's a wealth of inspiration , if you see them in sensual situations.

Creativity is something we do for ourselves and then share if there is anyone out there who cares to look, hear or see and money should really not be the goal. The important thing is to act on that inspiration - to turn thought into reality. That is true creativity. Without action, there is nothing. Making mistakes, in both ideas and application, is something I've embraced more in my work that I used to do. Going for technical accuracy tended to dilute that important initial idea and impede creativity. It risks an artist becoming afraid of their work and abandoning any given project. So I did away with it, and I find that creative flow is much easier these days.

Unfortunately you can't just grit your teeth or squint your eyes and be more creative. You have to believe in the cross-fertilization of ideas from very dissimilar activities, and therefore constantly be looking for ways to broaden your experiences.

Inspiration and action are everything.

[sandyamcpherson · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Austin Kleon relies on recycled sayings to espouse his point of view. In keeping with his philosophy of 'stealing', most of the phrasing has indeed come from other sources, reflective of the tired old idea that "no artwork is original".

The author's writing is annoyingly trite, and dances around the "what constitutes original art" question, never going below the surface. Therein lies a completely ignored aspect of his purloined adages: is each artist unique, with their own distinctive voice or are they all just a repetitive product of their environments, regurgitating whatever is around them?

My low rating was given as much for the negativity as for the hackneyed quotes. For example, "Original art is just undetected plagiarism". Where was the positivity in being inspired by other's work? Why use such pessimistic vocabulary when there could be joy from drawing creativity from whatever inspires an artwork?

In all fairness, there was homespun wisdom: eat well, get enough sleep, stay out of debt, keep your day job. But these philosophies have more to do with lifestyle generally than artistic endeavours.

[andycyca-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

You can read it in an hour or two, but actually following this advice can take months to get started. This is one of the few books I'll be carrying at all times next year to see what I can produce

[urnmo-1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

This is essentially a blog post.

[patl_53 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I'm reading heavily on creativity, story, visual thinking these days. Austin Kleon is heavily involved in this space. But this book is just so-so, nothing particularly thought provoking. I'm happy to have borrowed it from the library rather than buying it. It's not bad, but I won't need a revisit.

UPDATE:
After loving the followup book Show Your Work and LOVING it, I revisited this one. I like it much better this time. It's still a bit simple, but the creative encouragement contained here will be helpful for me in years to come. I revisited this after all, and will continue to do so again.

UPDATED UPDATE:
I reread this one again this week. Loved it even better than Show Your Work in this new reread of both. Lots more highlights and flagged pages.

[patriciau-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Super readable and full of useful, clever, and honest advice for creating.

At the end of day, just sit down and make something, dammit!

[tldegray-1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

This was just the thing I needed to read right now, as I'm in a creative slump. It was a great antidote to impostor syndrome.

[bibliosk8er_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Ha! Worked in one more book in 2013!

This little book is a very fast read, but I think it has some good thoughts in it. One might say "it's just motivational blah-blah-blah", but sometimes that is just fine. Sometimes it is what you need. I am interested in creativity and the creative process, and Kleon has some good things to say on those topics. I dug it.

[bostonterrio-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Kick start your creativity!

I am truly surprised that I enjoyed this book so much. It is a fast read and really triggered a burst of creative thinking for me. The ideas described are not new but serve as good reminders of how to encourage someone's creative growth. I rarely read a book more than once but I think this book will be the exception.

[razinha-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Delightful little book, filled with many good notions.
Recommended.

[mfbarry_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Some interesting points and simple drawings that got the author's point across. The simple nature of the book really could have been a 1,000 word article/blog post.

I am glad I got this from the library and didn't pay for it.

[phoibee-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This book is one of my favorites because I agree on what the author says.

1. Steal like an artist
Bad artist copy, good artists steal. I like the idea of saying that nothing is original. There will always be pieces of something from some other ideas.

2. Don't wait until you know who you are to get started
This is an advice I should have been given when I was younger!! I thoughtI have more time to think through and find myself before I do something. I wasted my time of looking for myself instead of creating myself.

3. Write the book you want to read
When I was little, I wrote fanfics before the internet and before it was cool! True story, bro. I even steal plots from Lemony Snicket and some tv shows.

4. Use your hands
I like to do things traditionally so I agree with this.

5. Side projects and hobbies are important
This makes me feel not guilty of doing things away from academic stuff. It really helps.

6. Do good work and share it with people
I like this idea because I think I could make more art when I could share it to other people rather than make art for myself.

7. Geography is no longer our master
Hello, internet! The worldwide web is an advantage from the past generations.

8. Be nice (the world is a small town)
9. Be boring (it's the only way to get work done)
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas

10. Creativity is subtraction
New concept to me.

[wyvernfriend · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Lots of food for thought. Along the lines of the Enemy of done is perfect. Just do things, forget about an audience, stop the doubt, just do it.

This comes at a mental sweet spot after a podcast talked about how buying the tools to do something creative isn't a substitute for doing creative stuff.

This is a quick read and I found it a useful spur.

[sturlington_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

A short book that can be read in one sitting that collects quick tips on how to integrate being creative into your life.

I found this to be pretty inspirational. I particularly liked the advice to start a logbook and to keep a praise file. Also: "write what you like" is so much more helpful than "write what you know." I think our culture is so focused on making money, being productive and crafting a personal brand that we've forgotten how to do things just for the joy of it. This book helps bring our minds back to that first principle.

At one point he says (paraphrasing) that what you do in your free time, when you're just noodling around, is what you should really be doing. In that case, I need to figure out how to build a career on cataloguing books in LibraryThing.

Read in 2015.

[andreablythe · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Steal Like an Artist is more of an inspirational, rather than practical, how-to book. It dispenses some of the epiphanies Kleon has come to discover over the course of his life as a creative artist and writer. He shares his advice with a mixture of plain-speak narrative, attractive black and white design, and illustrative artwork.

Most of these epiphanies felt rather elementary to me, being things I already knew or had a sense of — such as, “Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.” And yet, though this is not new information, I still found it refreshing to hear this advice again. The easier or more common a piece of advice is, the easier it is to push that advice to the back or your mind. Reading them again, reminds me and reinvigorates me.

The titular bit of advice, "Steal like an artist," Kleon reveals is in a sense another way of saying, "There's nothing new under the sun." The idea isn't to enact plagiarism, but to know that every experience, every book read, movie watched, every debate with a good friend intensely discussed feeds the creative machine of your mind. This both frees up artists trapped in the desperate search for originality to just sit down and create work, while also urging them to seek out experiences that best feed their work, enacting a kind of selective inspiration.

Most of the advice in Steal Like an Artist is designed to free the artist from obstacles, so that they create. It's a perfect book to read when you're feeling stuck.

[imjustmea · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Inspiring. Goes very well with Neil Gaiman's "Make Good Art" speech.

[nmarun-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I'll start by saying that this is a very thin, but a very heavy book. Thin in terms of the number of pages and heavy in terms of the topics the author discusses.

The author gives many examples for 'Re-mix seems to be the order of the day'. I was floored when he said 'Our failure to copy our heroes is where we discover where our own thing lives. That is how we evolve.'.

Conventional thinking says 'keep yourself busy all the time', but the author goes the other direction to show why being bored is critical to be creative.

Kleon highlights the importance of getting an education even after your schooling days. It helps you to get curious about even the most commonplace. Being surrounded by books seems to be crucial for any kind of growth and I resonate with this very well.

There are people who crave for being in the lime-light and there are others who do silent, great work behind the screens. The book suggests being in the latter. Kleon tells the only way to become popular is to do good work and share it with people.

All-in-all this is a book that tells you how to add value to your life by adapting these ground-rules.

[dtn620 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

A great little book about creating. Plenty to return to when feeling stuck at work, life, or creating.

[stefaniegeeks · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

The book is wonderfully uplifting for the creative soul. With witty words of wisdom from realistic life experience this book will get you fired up to create with abandon. Kleon's honest conversational tone laced with humorous hand-written notes and drawings make this a classic gift book. I will be giving it to all my college and high school grads in the future.

[jellyn_7 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

A quick read and lots of stuff worth stealing in it. :) I'm making my way through it a second time, taking notes this time.

[auntieclio · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

True story. I once worked with a song writer. We were doing data entry from traffic tickets into a new traffic court database. This song writer talked on and on about his songs. One day I asked who his influences were, who he listened to, who inspired him. His response makes me giggle every time I think about it. "Oh no," he said with complete belief in himself and his work, "I don't listen to other music. I don't want it to pollute my work. My songs need to be pure."

You know what? That guy is probably still doing odd jobs for temp agencies because he isn't willing to open himself up to the world.

What I am learning from books like Hugh MacLeod's "Ignore Everybody" and now, Austin Kleon's "Steal Like an Artist" is something I already knew. In order to be creative, one has to open herself up to the world. Read, watch tv, watch movies, listen to music, go places, see things, hang out with friends. Take it in. Find people who inspire you and study them.

I'll be doing odd jobs for temp agencies. The difference is I'm there make money to pay the bills so I can open myself up to new experiences and find interesting ways to take pictures. There's nothing pure about my art. I know it's derivative. Everyone's art starts out derivative. It's all derivative. It's what we do with it that makes it our own.

Oh, and I count Annie Liebovitz and Diane Arbus among my influences.

[elosoblanco · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I loved this. It's simple, it's clear, it's concise, and the advice is relatively adaptable to suit the needs of any reader. I immediately started a few of the habits mentioned in the book and have found them quite useful.

Enjoy, and go create.

[shelby_kuzma · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Steal Like An Artist is a book unlike any other I have ever read. Written by an artist/writer, it is designed to help the creative process in everyone, not just artists and writers. I would say that Steal Like An Artist is probably geared towards young adults, but I believe there is advice in this book that everyone can take.

I found this book very helpful. It was filled with creative ideas that do not require a lot of effort to apply into your daily life. I also liked the layout. It was very easy to read and I ended up finishing it in about 2 hours!

I really liked how at the end the author puts in a note saying that this is not a strict guide on how to be successful; some advice can be used, other information can be ignored. It's up to you what you take from this book.

In general, I think this is a great book to read if you are in college. I believe it will help me make the most of the experience!