Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.' — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“How does an artist look at the world? First, you figure out what's worth stealing, then you move on to the next… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn’t.” —Craig Damrauer The” — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean. — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“If you just mimic the surface of somebody’s work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“Online, everyone—the artist and the curator, the master and the apprentice, the expert and the amateur—has the ability to contribute something.” — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“scenius.” Under this model, great ideas are often birthed by a group of creative individuals—artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers—who make… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“If you look to artists who've managed to achieve lifelong careers, you detect the same pattern: They all have been able to… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Usually, when we talk about creativity, it’s about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“Good” can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“But whatever the nature of your work, there is an art to what you do, and there are people who would be… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“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… — Austin Kleon Copy Share
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. — Austin Kleon Copy Share
“We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can’t steal. You will take what… — austin kleon Copy Share
“If you want fans, you have to be a fan first. If you want to be accepted by a community, you have to first… — Austin Kleon Copy Share
“Social media sites are the perfect place to share daily updates. Don’t worry about being on every platform; pick and choose based on what… — Austin Kleon Copy Share
“Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.” — Austin Kleon Copy Share
It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist. — Austin Kleon Copy Share
“Don't wait until you know who you are to get started. If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about… — Austin Kleon Copy Share
Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land,… — Austin Kleon Copy Share
“The writer Jonathan Lethem has said that when people call something “original,” nine out of ten times they just don’t know the references or… — Austin Kleon Copy Share
“Stock and flow” is an economic concept that writer Robin Sloan has adapted into a metaphor for media: “Flow is the feed. It’s the… — Austin Kleon Copy Share
