Austin Kleon Quotes

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• 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 important than an unread library."
• If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying…
• 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 only collect things that 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 hear, write the books you…
• Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.
• Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among…
• The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best—write the…
• The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
• Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.
• In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.
• Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll either find the answer or…
• Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.
• If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.
• Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.
• Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

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