I don’t want to know how a thirty-year-old became rich and famous; I want to hear how an eighty-year-old spent her life in obscurity, kept making art… - Austin Kleon

Our culture mostly celebrates early successes, the people who bloom fast. But those people often wither as quickly as they bloom. [...] I don't want to know how a thirty-year-old became rich and famous; I want to hear how an eighty-year-old spent her life in obscurity, kept making art, and lived a happy life.

I want to know how Bill Cunningham jumped on his bicycle every day and rode around New York taking photos in his eighties.

if you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first.

Inertia is the death of creativity. You have to stay in the groove. When you get out of the groove, you start to dread the work, because you know it’s going to suck for a while — it’s going to suck until you get back into the flow.

Nada paraliza más que la idea de posibilidades ilimitadas. La idea de hacer cualquier cosa es absolutamente aterrorizante.