Austin Kleon Quotes

Qué copiar es un poco más difícil. No sólo te robes un estilo, róbate el pensamiento detrás de ese estilo. No quieres verte como tus héroes, quieres observar como ellos.

Plagiarism is trying to pass someone else's work off as your own. Copying is about reverse-engineering.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.” — Yohji Yamamoto

There are no rules, of course. Life is an art, not a science. Your mileage may vary. Take what you need and leave the rest.

The trouble is, we don’t always know what’s good and what sucks. That’s why it’s important to get things in front of others and see how they react.

Le he robado movimientos geniales
a los mejores jugadores. Sólo trato de
que quienes vinieron antes que
yo se sientan orgullosos, porque yo he
aprendido mucho de ellos. Todo es
en nombre del juego. Es algo mucho
más grande que yo.” — Kobe Bryant

The reason to copy your heroes and their style is so that you might somehow get a glimpse into their minds. That's what you really want - to internalize their way of looking at the wold. If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more that a knockoff.

The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act,

Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn’t.

Mediocrity is, however, still on the spectrum; you can move from mediocre to good in increments. The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

Ignorándolos. ¿La mejor forma de hacer amigos? Diciendo cosas buenas de ellos.

No puedes ir por la vida buscando que fuentes externas te validen. Una vez que tu trabajo sea público, no tienes forma de controlar la reacción de la gente.

Books are made out of books.

Be boring. (It's the only way to get work done.)

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.” — Mark Twain