Austin Kleon Quotes

By putting things out there, consistently, you can form a relationship with your customers. It allows them to see the person behind the products.

Job titles can mess you up. Job titles, if they’re taken too seriously, will make you feel like you need to work in a way that befits the title, not the way that fits the actual work. Job titles can also restrict the kinds of work that you feel like you can do. If you only consider yourself a “painter,” then what happens when you want to try out writing?

If there was a secret formula for becoming known, I would give it to you. But there's only one not-so-secret formula that I know: Do good work and share it with people.

Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to him.

Maluj takové obrazy, na jaké chceš kouka,... tvoř ty věci, které chceš používat.

If you ask yourself 'What's the best thing that happened today?' It actually forces a certain kind of cheerful retrospection that pulls up from the recent past things to write about that you wouldn't otherwise think about.

it. The art of holding on to money is all about saying no to consumer culture. Saying no to takeout, $4 lattes, and that shiny new computer when the old one still works fine.

You don’t have to live anywhere other than the place you are to start connecting with the world you want to be in.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

I’m an artist, man,” said John Lennon. “Give me a tuba, and I’ll get you something out of it.

You have to find a place that feeds you — creatively, socially, spiritually, and literally.

Carry a notebook and pen with you wherever you go. Get used to pulling it out and jotting down your thoughts and observations. Copy your favorite passages out of books. Record overheard conversations. Doodle when you're on the phone. Go to whatever lengths necessary to make sure you always have paper on you.

Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.” — Derek Sivers

Yesterday’s over, tomorrow may never come, there’s just today and what you can do with it.

good work isn’t created in a vacuum,