Creativity Is Subtraction

Sometimes the best way to create something new is to remove the most important elements. Austin Kleon, author of Newspaper Blackout, removes words from articles until only poetry remains.

Or if you are Dan Walsh, you remove the main character from a comic strip and are left with a depressing (and hilarious) look into the collapsing mind of Jon Arbuckle in Garfield Minus Garfield.

The next time you are searching for inspiration, try taking something crucial away from a project and take a good look at what is left. It might just be better without it.