Austin Kleon Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Austin Kleon
Austin Kleon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life. - Jessica Hische
Once a day, after you've done your day's work, go back to your documentation and find one little piece of your process that you can share.
Every artist gets asked the question, "Where do you get your ideas?" The honest artist answers, "I steal them.
There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.
Surround yourself with books and objects that you love. Tape things up on the wall. Create your own world.
You and I will be around a lot longer than Twitter, and nothing substitutes face to face. - Rob Delaney It
People love it when you give your secrets away, and sometimes, if you're smart about it, they'll reward you by buying the things you're selling.
Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you'll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It's that simple.
The important thing is that you show your appreciation without expecting anything in return, and that you get new work out of the appreciation.
Once the computer is involved, things are on an inevitable path to being finished. Whereas in my sketchbook the possibilities are endless.
There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
Your influences are all worth sharing because they clue people in to who you are and what you do - sometimes even more than your own work.
In fact, sharing your process might actually be most valuable if the products of your work aren't easily shared,
Keep your own list, or get an account with an email newsletter company like MailChimp and put a little sign-up widget on every page of your website.
Whenever you're at a loss for what move to make next, just ask yourself, What would make a betterstory?
The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.
One more thing: Unless you are actually a ninja, a guru, or a rock star, don't ever use any of those terms in your bio. Ever.
You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about. If everybody's wondering about apples, go wonder about oranges.
You don't have to live anywhere other than the place you are to start connecting with the world you want to be in.
What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style.
The thing is, you can cut off a couple passions and only focus on one, but after a while, you'll start to feel phantom limb pain.
Online, everyone - the artist and the curator, the master and the apprentice, the expert and the amateur - has the ability to contribute something.
Find a scenius, pay attention to what others are sharing, and then start taking note of what they're not sharing.
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making. - John Currin
Find the most talented person in the room, and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful.
You're never "keeping it real" with your lack of punctuation and proofreading, you're keeping it unintelligible.
Writing a page each day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.
All you need is a little space and a little time - a place to work, and some time to do it; a little self-imposed solitude and temporary captivity.
The writer Wilson Mizner said if you copy from one author, it's plagiarism, but if you copy from many, it's research. I
You'll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money.
Step 1: Wonder at something. Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you. You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about.
If you feel like you have two or three real passions, don't pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.
Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
Imitation is about copying. Emulation is when imitation goes one step further, breaking through into your own thing.
It's one of my theories that when people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.
In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down."- George Abbott