Austin Kleon Quotes

chew on one thinker-writer, activist, role model- you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker. Then find three people the thinker loved and find out everything about them. Repeat this as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you built your tree, it's time to start your own branch.

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All the world’s a stage. Creative work is a kind of theater. The stage is your studio, your desk, or your workstation. The costume is your outfit — your painting pants, your business suit, or that funny hat that helps you think. The props are your materials, your tools, and your medium. The script is just plain old time. An hour here, or an hour there — just time measured out for things to happen.

Tomlinson sugiere que, si te atraen varias cosas, sigas invirtiendo tiempo en ellas. “Deja que interactúen, que hablen entre ellas. Algo surgirá de eso.

Wunderkammern, a “wonder chamber,” or a “cabinet of curiosities” in your house — a room filled with rare and remarkable objects that served as a kind of external display of your thirst for knowledge of the world.

The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. Life is short and art is long.

Drawing is simply another way of seeing, which we don’t really do as adults,” says cartoonist Chris Ware. We’re all going around in a “cloud of remembrance and anxiety,” he says, and the act of drawing helps us live in the moment and concentrate on what’s really in front of us.

Franz Kafka wrote, “It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.” — John Currin

Think about your favourite work and your creative heroes. What did they miss? What didn't they make? What could've been made better? If they were still alive, what would they be making today? If all your favourite makers got together and collaborated, what would they make with you leading the crew?

Haz el trabajo que quieres que se haga.

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.

Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.

Human beings want to know where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they understand about your work affects how they value it.

Go make that stuff. The manifesto is this: 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.