"The thing is: It takes a lot of……" — Austin Kleon
"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."
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57 Quotes by Austin Kleon
Austin Kleon has 57 quotes on this site.
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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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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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I want to do something creative, not just easy.
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I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who…
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The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't…
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
— Ansel Adams
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Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
— Ansel Adams
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human…
— Ansel Adams
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The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It…
— Steve Ballmer
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My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that…
— Eric Bana
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Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
— Melody Beattie
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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
— Max Beckmann
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