Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.' — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by. — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends… — 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
There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us- we start editing ideas before we have them.” — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. — 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 Image
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
