Quotes by Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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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--t — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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 w — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder. — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more impor — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room. — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Life is a lonely business — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Life is a lonely bussiness — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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 prete — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
My motto for creat — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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 helpf — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
The great thing about remote or dead masters is that they can't refuse you as an apprentice. You can learn whatever you — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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 — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred peo — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
The best way to vanquish your enemies on the Internet? Ignore them.  — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them. — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don't want to look like your heroes, you want to se — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative