All Austin Kleon Quotes
- School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself… Don T
- You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question. Answer
- Write the book you want to read Book
- Today isn't just another day. Today I'll create something beautiful. Another Day
- Inertia is the death of creativity Creativity
- Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. Invention
- The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Advice
- Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time. Establishing
- Usually, when we talk about creativity, it’s about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone… Alive
- Unless you are actually a ninja, a guru, or a rock star, don't ever use any of those terms in your bio. Ever. Any
- That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only half of the… Art
- Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can… Book
- What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original. All
- 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. Creative
- The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a… Best
- The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough. Around Long
- You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again. Content
- Art is theftâ€) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists stealâ€), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you,… Admire
- Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing. Amateurs
- If we’re free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can… Burden