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1 " 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. "
― Austin Kleon , Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
2 " Write the book you want to read "
― Austin Kleon
3 " 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. "
4 " Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder. "
5 " Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library. "
6 " Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people like one of his tubes of oil paints. You's have a great time hanging out all day with Picasso, and then you's go home nervous and exhausted, and Picasso would go back to his studio and paint all night, using the energy he'd sucked out of you. "
― Austin Kleon , Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
7 " Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. "
8 " If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room. "
9 " Life is a lonely business "
10 " Life is a lonely bussiness "
11 " Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying. "
12 " Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room. "
13 " The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom. "
14 " If you just mimic the surface of somebody’s work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff. "
15 " Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you. "
16 " Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. "
17 " The great thing about remote or dead masters is that they can't refuse you as an apprentice. You can learn whatever you want from them. They left their lesson plans in their work. "
18 " The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read. "
19 " It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. "
20 " Be so good they can’t ignore you. "
