Barbie Hahn

“Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.”
― Kelly Gallagher, Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

“There isn’t a move that’s a new move.” The basketball star Kobe Bryant has admitted that all of his moves on the court were stolen from watching tapes of his heroes. But initially, when Bryant stole a lot of those moves, he realized he couldn’t completely pull them off because he didn’t have the same body type as the guys he was thieving from. He had to adapt the moves to make them his own.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“The only art I’ll ever study is stuff that I can steal from.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative