Austin Kleon Quotes

• Do good work and share it with people.

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• Write the book you want to read.

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• Copying is about reverse engineering.

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• Don’t wait until you know who you are to get started.

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• Inertia is the death of creativity.

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• Complain about the way other people make software by making software.

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• The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

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• Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.

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• You’ll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money.

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• In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.

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• Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to him.

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• If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.

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• Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want—that just kills creativity.

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• Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

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• Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else–that’s how you’ll get ahead.

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• The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don’t have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

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• Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.

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• Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

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• Every new idea is just a mash up or a remix of one or more previous ideas.

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• Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.

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Austin Kleon (27)

Birth:	16th June, 1983
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Author, Cartoonist, Designer, Librarian, Speaker, Writer

About

Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of three illustrated books: Steal Like An Artist is a manifesto for creativity in the digital age; Show Your Work! is a guide to sharing creativity and getting discovered; and Newspaper Blackout is a collection of poetry made by redacting words from newspaper articles with a permanent marker.

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