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Siapa bilang mencuri itu buruk? Mencuri adalah keharusan! Tak Percaya? Orang-orang hebat sudah membuktikannya. Bintang basket Kobe Bryant mengaku bahwa semua gerakannya di lapangan dia curi dari para idolanya. Untuk menciptakan komputer Mac, Steve Jobs mencuri ide dari Xerox. Beatles awalnya adalah band yang menyanyikan lagu-lagu penyanyi lain. Tak ada yang orisinal. Semua kreasi berasal dari sesuatu yang pernah ada. Dan kreativitas tidak pernah lahir begitu saja, butuh proses juga perlu diasah. Mencuri ide adalah awal menumbuhkannya. Kreatif adalah melihat dari sudut pandang berbeda. Kreatif adalah mampu menyiasati keterbatasan. Kreatif adalah menemukan solusi terbaik dari permasalahan. Buku ini mengembangkan kreativitasmu, siapa pun kamu, dalam bidang apa pun kamu berkarya. [Mizan, Noura Books, Terjemahan, Kreatif, Karya, Indonesia]
“The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.” —David Bowie (Location 61)
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. What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original. (Location 64)
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.” (Location 69)
“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” —William Ralph Inge (Location 73)
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. (Location 76)
“Steal from anywhere that resonates with (Location 102)
inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.” —Jim Jarmusch (Location 102)
John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.” (Location 127)
“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.” —Mark Twain (Location 143)
If I’d waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started “being creative,” well, I’d still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it’s in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are. (Location 148)
William Shakespeare spelled out in his play As You Like It about 400 years ago: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. (Location 159)
“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.” —Yohji Yamamoto (Location 182)
We’re talking about practice here, not plagiarism—plagiarism is trying to pass someone else’s work off as your own. Copying is about reverse-engineering. It’s like a mechanic taking apart a car to see how it works. (Location 185)
Salvador Dalí said, “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” (Location 193)
cartoonist Gary Panter say, “If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!” (Location 198)
Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes. (Location 200)
“We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can’t steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that’s how you will find your voice. And that’s how you begin. And then one day someone will steal from you.” —Francis Ford Coppola (Location 206)
“It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.” (Location 217)
Copy your heroes. Examine where you fall short. What’s in there that makes you different? That’s what you should amplify and transform into your own work. (Location 221)
In the end, merely imitating your heroes is not flattering them. Transforming their work into something of your own is how you flatter them. Adding something to the world that only you can add. (Location 223)
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.” —Jessica Hische (Location 313)
Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts. Use it. (Location 366)
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” —Howard Aiken (Location 402)
Franz Kafka wrote, “It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.” (Location 419)
“There’s only one rule I know of: You’ve got to be kind.” —Kurt Vonnegut (Location 461)
“The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.” —Questlove (Location 464)
“Complain about the way other people make software by making software.” —Andre Torrez (Location 483)
The trouble with creative work: Sometimes by the time people catch on to what’s valuable about what you do, you’re either a) bored to death with it, or b) dead. You can’t go looking for validation from external sources. Once you put your work into the world, you have no control over the way people will react to it. (Location 500)
Ironically, really good work often appears to be effortless. People will say, “Why didn’t I think of that?” They won’t see the years of toil and sweat that went into it. (Location 503)
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” —Gustave Flaubert (Location 519)
right constraints can lead to your very best work. (Location 599)
Saul Steinberg said, “What we respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations.” (Location 607)
everything. (Location 650)