"If we’re free from the burden of trying……" — Austin Kleon
"If we’re free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it,"
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57 Quotes by Austin Kleon
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If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
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Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more…
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If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd…
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There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
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Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'
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We found the future, like birds fly into windows.
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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…
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You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.
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Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to…
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Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody…
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Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some…
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The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of…
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
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The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel…
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Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father,…
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet…
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The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight…
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