"There's a balance between what you want to……" — Austin Kleon
"There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle."
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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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