They only collect the things that they really love.Īn artist’s job is to collect ideas and the best way I know to collect ideas is to read. Hoarders collect indiscriminately, and artists collect selectively. Not hoarders, mind you, there’s a difference. I think the human beings are collectors and artists especially. Our impulse is to save the things that mean something to us from oblivion. When we’re done reading them, they stack up in the recycle bin.ĭespite all that, I don’t know anyone who hasn’t clipped something out of the newspaper. The trouble with newspapers is that they’re ephemeral. My father in law and my uncles are both reporters, and I’ve been reading newspapers my whole life. My parents subscribed to two different newspapers. They said, “How dare you do this to the classics? Leave the classics alone.”Īnybody knows Stravinsky’s reply? He said, “You ‘respect’, but I love.” And he borrowed baselines and melodies from the famous works, but he composed his own harmonies and rhythms underneath that work.Īnd when the ballet came out, critics were outraged.
But instead of starting completely from scratch, he pulled out some of his favorite classic manuscripts, and he got out his red pen, and he started correcting the scores as if it was his own music.
Stravinsky was about to start a new ballet. So there is a story about the composer Igor Stravinsky. Listen to the MP3 Audio here: Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon at TEDxKC Here is the full transcript of Austin Kleon’s TEDx Talk: Steal Like An Artist at TEDxKC.
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