Austin Kleon Quotes - Page 2

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• Become a documentarian of what you do.

  Austin Kleon

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.41, Workman Publishing

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• Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.

  Austin Kleon

  Ideas, Limitless Possibilities, Limitless

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.137, Workman Publishing

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• If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

  Austin Kleon

  Inspirational, Needs, Rooms

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.104, Workman Publishing

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• The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

  Austin Kleon

  Creative, Energy, Stuff

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.119, Workman Publishing

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• That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only half of the equation. It’s an interaction between you and the person who’s going to experience the work. The person who’s going to experience the work is bringing just as much to it and is just as important as you are.

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  Art, Important, Half

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• You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

  Austin Kleon

  Facts, Influence, Said

  "Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative". Book by Austin Kleon, February 28, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Giving, Balance, Lucky

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• We're always being told 'find your voice.' When I was younger, I never really knew what this meant. I used to worry a lot about voice, wondering if I had my own. But now I realize that the only way to find your voice is to use it. It's hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

  Austin Kleon

  Love You, Writing, Voice

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.21, Workman Publishing

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• Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.

  Austin Kleon

  Knows, Contributing

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.16, Workman Publishing

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• The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

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  Artist, Differences, Mind

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.13, Workman Publishing

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• Inertia is the death of creativity

  Austin Kleon

  Creativity, Inertia

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• The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

  Austin Kleon

  Editing, Ideas, Uptight

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.58, Workman Publishing

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• Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.

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  Teacher, Book, Ideas

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.11, Workman Publishing

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• When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.

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  Past, Talking, People

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.1, Workman Publishing

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• Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question.

  Austin Kleon

  Dream, Mean, Google

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• There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income.
  I think the same thing is true of idea incomes. You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Average

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.13, Workman Publishing

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• You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.

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  Facts, Mashups, You Choose

  "Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative". Book by Austin Kleon, 2012.

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• Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

  Austin Kleon

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Stories

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.47, Workman Publishing

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• Do good work and share it with people.

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  People, Good Work, Share

  "Austin Kleon – Artist and Writer". IDEAMENSCH interview, ideamensch.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Be nice. (The world is a small town.)

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  Nice, World, Towns

  "8 Questions with Best Selling Author Austin Kleon". Interview with David W. Wright, sterlingandstone.net.

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• Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time.

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  Important, Routine

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• Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites André Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

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  Art, Ideas, People

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• The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

  Austin Kleon

  Morning, Trying, Tasks

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• Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

  Austin Kleon

  Thinking, Self, Machines

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.67, Workman Publishing

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• The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.

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  Persistence, Long, People

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.183, Workman Publishing

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