Start Copying (Steal Like an Artist 2/3)

Steal Like an Artist has a very profound message throughout the whole book that unintentionally points to our humanity in light of a Creator, essentially saying that all art is stealing and copying because we as humans are unable to create anything new. The Bible affirms this in Ecclesiastes, saying, "There is nothing new under the sun." Steal investigates the beauty and the peace of such a phenomenon. 

To elaborate further on this, Kleon writes, "A wonderful flaw about human beings is that we're incapable of making perfect copies. Our failure to copy our heroes is where we discover where our own thing lives. That is how we evolve"(41).

I love this paradox! I love how we are unable to achieve perfect originality because only the Creator is perfectly original, but since He has created each human uniquely, our creations will never be perfect replicas or copies, but rather they will be echoes and reflections. They will always shout of a Creator, but they will never speak of Him as boring.