Austin Kleon Quotes

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.

ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them

We’re talking about practice here, not plagiarism — plagiarism is trying to pass someone else’s work off as your own. Copying is about reverse-engineering. It’s like a mechanic taking apart a car to see how it works.

¿La mejor forma de vencer a tus enemigos en internet?

Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself an education.

Audiences not only want to stumble across great work, but they, too, long to be creative and part of the creative process. By letting go of our egos and sharing our process, we allow for the possibility of people having an ongoing connection with us and our work, which helps us move more of our product.

Todas las ideas que se nos ocurren cotidianamente, son por lo general una mezcla de ideas previas, experiencias personales, feedback que recibimos por parte de colegas, etc.

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

By generously sharing their ideas and their knowledge, they often gain an audience that they can then leverage when they need it — for fellowship, feedback, or patronage.

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

Do what you love” + low overhead = a good life.

Clay Shirky in his book Cognitive Surplus. “On the spectrum of creative work, the difference between the mediocre and the good is vast. 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.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before.

Always be reading. Go to the library. There's magic in being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read bibliographies. It's not the book you start with, it's the book that book leads you to.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.” — Charlie Chaplin