It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strangeamps. Today, the artist.

When I was a kid, being legally blind and having to wear these glasses that look like pop bottles,

I think I felt like a mutant.

The misfit artist, the lone creative genius.

They're familiar stereotypes, occasionally, even accurate.

Mark Motherspow co-founded the legendary New Wave Band Devo,

but his first love was visual art.

Maybe because when he was a kid, he couldn't see.

His first solo museum show just opened, and today we'll talk with him about art and the creative impulse.

And if you've ever wished you could make art or wished you made better art,

one path might be to forget about being original and just steel like an artist.

You're literally a mash-up of what you led into your life.

Austin Cleon makes a living as a writer and artist.

He calls himself a writer who draws,

but he is not very hung up on originality.

He's the author of a widely quoted manifesto

on creativity in the digital age called Steele like an artist.

The title is a playoff of something that's actually misattributed to Picasso, good artist's copy,

great artist steel. As far as I can tell, Picasso actually never said that. It was actually

T.S. Eliot. He was talking about poets. I was shocked myself to find out how many artists really use that term stealing. And it's

not just artists, it's people of all fields. Someone like Steve Jobs or Kobe Bryant. He talks about

stealing basketball moves when he was watching tapes when he was young. Someone like Francis Ford

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