Austin Kleon Quotes

Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough,

Criatividade não é apenas o que escolhemos usar, são as coisas que escolhemos deixar de fora.

We all like to think we’re more complex than a two-sentence explanation.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Empieza a copiar lo que amas. Copia, copia, copia, copia. Cuando acabes de copiar, te encontrarás a ti mismo.

Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From

Silence and solitude are crucial. Our modern world of push notifications, 24/7 news cycles, and constant contact is almost completely inhospitable to the kind of retreat artists must make in order to focus deeply on their work.

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.

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.

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there’s a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love. There’s

Let go of the thing that you’re trying to be (the noun), and focus on the actual work you need to be doing (the verb).

It's often what an artist chooses to leave out that makes the art interesting.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good.

the “lone genius” myth: An individual with superhuman talents appears out of nowhere at certain points in history, free of influences or precedent, with a direct connection to God or The Muse.

Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives.