What Can You Take Away?
Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2010 in Quotes
By Austin Kleon on Flickr
Update 1/24: @ettagirl responded to this post on Twitter, saying, “perhaps creativity is seeing what needs to be pared away—a bit like math—searching the very nub of a thing. guess i agree :)” That reminds me of the Michelangelo quote, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” …Which also makes me realize, I should explain the source of the image above, by Austin Kleon. Austin uses a sharpie to black out words in newspaper articles; the words that remain visible comprise his poetry. See more examples of these “newspaper blackout poems” here.
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