Art is theft, Ctd

Austin Kleon put it in especially fluent terms: "Nothing is completely original. All artists’ work builds on what came before. Every new idea is just a remix or a mashup of two previous ideas." As designer Paula Scher said: "You are a mashup of what you let into your life."

Via Maria Popova on Brain Pickings here. 

Writing is hard, Ctd

"Writing beats baling hay or going door-to-door for a living, but it’s still shockingly unenjoyable work."

By Tim Kreider on not giving your work away for free via Austin Kleon here.