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61 " Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you'll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It's that simple. "
― Austin Kleon , Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
62 " Think about your favourite work and your creative heroes. What did they miss? What didn't they make? What could've been made better? If they were still alive, what would they be making today? If all your favourite makers got together and collaborated, what would they make with you leading the crew? "
― Austin Kleon , Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
63 " The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us- we start editing ideas before we have them. "
64 " If you look to artists who've managed to achieve lifelong careers, you detect the same pattern: They all have been able to persevere, regardless of success or failure. "
65 " Don't feel guilty about the pleasures you take in the things you enjoy. "
― Austin Kleon
66 " In the meantime, if you're not into the world you live in, you can build your own world around you.[...]Surround yourself with books and objects that you love. Tape things up on the wall. Create your own world. "
67 " In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down."- George Abbott "
68 " Do good work and share it with people. "
69 " School is one thing, education is another. The two dont always overlap. Whether you are in school or not, ts always your job to get yourself an education. "
70 " When you get rid of old material, you push yourself further and come up with something better. "
71 " Job titles can mess you up. Job titles, if they’re taken too seriously, will make you feel like you need to work in a way that befits the title, not the way that fits the actual work. Job titles can also restrict the kinds of work that you feel like you can do. If you only consider yourself a “painter,” then what happens when you want to try out writing? "
― Austin Kleon , Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
72 " Así como tienes una genealogía familiar, tienes una genealogía de ideas. De plano no puedes escoger a tu familia pero sí elegir a tus maestros y amigos, la música que escuchas, los libros que lees y las películas que ves. "
73 " Teach what you know. "
― Austin Kleon , The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy
74 " You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. "
75 " You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see. You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. "
76 " Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing. "
77 " The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love. "
78 " You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes. "
79 " Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care. "
80 " 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. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.” Don’t worry about doing research. Just search. "