"It's in the act of making things that……" — Austin Kleon

"It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are."

— Austin Kleon

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57 Quotes by Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more…
If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd…
There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'
We found the future, like birds fly into windows.
The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They…
You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to…
Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody…
Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some…
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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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