Art Quote by Austin Kleon Download Open image ““What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere.”” — Austin Kleon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Good art
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original. — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.” — Jan Pinkava Ratatouille Copy Share Image
“All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.” — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the only way to understand an artist is to wear his shoes, to get inside him. Then everything else flows naturally.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.” — Laurence G. Boldt Copy Share Image
“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance” — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.” — Ivan Fernandez 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image