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Austin Kleon has 57 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 important than…
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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 still be…
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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 only collect…
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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 hear, write…
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Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how…
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Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in…
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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 story you…
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To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
— Jasper Johns
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
— Laozi
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Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.
— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to…
— David Hockney
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There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case.…
— Kathe Kollwitz
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Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it…
— Charles Saatchi
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever…
— Laozi
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There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
— Charles Saatchi
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To be a good artist / letterer / designer / guitar player it takes practice. A lot of it. More than you…
— Jessica Hische
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What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely…
— Austin Kleon
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The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and…
— Gore Vidal
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