You should be able to explain your work to a kindergartner, a senior citizen, and everybody in between. Of course, you always need to keep your audie… - Austin Kleon

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

If you feel like you have two or three real passions, don't pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.

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.