Austin Kleon Quotes

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• The only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

  Austin Kleon

  Love You, Voice, Use

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.21, Workman Publishing

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• It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.

  Austin Kleon

  Who We Are, Figures

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• In order to be found, you have to be findable.

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  Order, Found You, Found

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.1, Workman Publishing

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• Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

  Austin Kleon

  People, Creative, Needs

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.67, Workman Publishing

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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 you'll get ahead.

  Austin Kleon

  Looks, World, Curious

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.19, Workman Publishing

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• You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

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  Letting Go, Moved On, Stuff

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.13, Workman Publishing

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• Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.

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  Ideas, Mashups, Remix

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.9, Workman Publishing

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• Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

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  Waiting, Knows, Who You Are

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• Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.

  Austin Kleon

  Names, People, Misunderstood

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.112, Workman Publishing

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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 the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.

  Austin Kleon

  Running, Art, Book

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.48, Workman Publishing

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• Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.

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  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.30, Workman Publishing

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• You're ready. Start making stuff.

  Austin Kleon

  Stuff, Ready

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.27, Workman Publishing

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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 original.

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  Artist, Creative, Good Art

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.7, Workman Publishing

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• Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

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  People, Attention, Pay

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.199, Workman Publishing

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• The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.

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  Minutes, Teach, Turns

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.117, Workman Publishing

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• Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

  Austin Kleon

  Wonder

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• 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 embrace influence instead of running from it.

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  Running, Trying, Influence

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

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  Ideas, Good Ideas

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.14, Workman Publishing

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• You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

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  Mastery, Students, Push Yourself

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.197, Workman Publishing

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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 another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

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  Hard Work, Land, People

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.94, Workman Publishing

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• The only way to find your voice is to use it

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  Voice, Use, Way

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.21, Workman Publishing

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• 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 on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

  Austin Kleon

  Art, Creativity, Self

  Interview with Ryan and Tina Essmaker, thegreatdiscontent.com. April 1, 2014.

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• Become a documentarian of what you do.

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  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.41, Workman Publishing

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• Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.

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  Ideas, Limitless Possibilities, Limitless

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.137, Workman Publishing

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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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  Inspirational, Needs, Rooms

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.104, Workman Publishing

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