Austin Kleon Quotes

PRACTICA LA PROCRASTINACIÓN PRODUCTIVA

Marcel Duchamp said, “I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.” This is actually a pretty good method for studying — if you try to devour the history of your discipline all at once, you’ll choke.

Note that Campbell says you must have a room or a certain hour. A bliss station can be not just a where, but also a when. Not just a sacred space, but also a sacred time. The deluxe package would include both a special room and a special hour that you enter it. But I think one can make up for a lack of the other. For example, say you have a tiny apartment you share with small children. There’s no room for your bliss station, there’s only time. When the kids are asleep or at school or day care, even a kitchen table can become a bliss station. Or, say your schedule is totally unpredictable and a certain time of day can’t be relied upon — that’s when a dedicated space that’s ready for you at any time will come in handy.

Don’t talk to people you don’t want to talk to, and don’t talk about stuff you don’t want to talk about.

If you don't find something worth stealing today, you might find it worth stealing tomorrow or a month or a year from now.

Step 1: Wonder at something. Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you. You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about.

The disorder of the desk, the floor; the yellow Post-it notes everywhere; the whiteboards covered with scrawl: all this is the outward manifestation of the messiness of human thought.” — Ellen Ullman

productive procrastination. (Avoiding work by doing other work.)

What you want is to follow and be followed by human beings who care about issues you care about. This thing we make together. This thing is about hearts and minds, not eyeballs.

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.

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.

Remember: Even The Beatles started as a cover band.

try to be utterly schizoid about it all — using each personality as a refuge from the other.

The German writer Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” “We

Books are made out of books.” — Cormac McCarthy Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From David Byrne, How Music Works Mike Monteiro, Design Is a Job Kio Stark, Don’t Go Back to School Ian Svenonius, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group Sidney Lumet, Making Movies P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting