Austin Kleon Quotes

The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others. Share your reading list. Point to helpful reference materials. [...] Take people step-by-step through part of your process.

you want attention only after you’re doing really good work. There’s no pressure when you’re unknown. You can do what you want. Experiment. Do things just for the fun of it. When you’re unknown, there’s nothing to distract you from getting better.

Así como tienes una genealogía familiar, tienes una genealogía de ideas. De plano no puedes escoger a tu familia pero sí elegir a tus maestros y amigos, la música que escuchas, los libros que lees y las películas que ves.

If you want to be more effective when sharing yourself and your work, you need to become a better storyteller.

We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.” — Walt Disney Some

If you have two or three real passions, don't feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.

Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. Here’s a trick they teach you in art school. Draw two parallel lines on a piece of paper: How many lines are there? There’s the first line, the second line, but then there’s a line of negative space that runs between them. See it? 1 + 1 = 3.

That’s what you really want — to internalize their way of looking at the world. If you just mimic the surface of somebody’s work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

Take time to be bored. One time I heard a coworker say, “When I get busy, I get stupid.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want — that just kills creativity.

More than 400 years ago, Michel de Montaigne, in his essay “On Experience,” wrote, “In my opinion, the most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles . . . and the most marvelous examples.

When people realize they’re being listened to, they tell you things.” — Richard Ford

Como dijo Salvador Dalí: “Aquellos que no quieren imitar nada, no producen nada.

Once a day, after you’ve done your day’s work, go back to your documentation and find one little piece of your process that you can share. Where you are in your process will determine what that piece is. If you’re in the very early stages, share your influences and what’s inspiring you. If you’re in the middle of executing a project, write about your methods or share works in progress. If you’ve just completed a project, show the final product, share scraps from the cutting-room floor, or write about what you learned.

creativity is always, in some sense, a collaboration, the result of a mind connected to other minds.