Don't wait until you know who you are to get started. Austin Kleon More Quotes by Austin Kleon More Quotes From Austin Kleon The only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow. Austin Kleon voice use love-you 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. Austin Kleon misunderstood names people Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive. Austin Kleon creativity self art You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again. Austin Kleon push-yourself mastery students 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. Austin Kleon running book art Write the book you want to read Austin Kleon want writing book 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 curious looks world You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. Austin Kleon mashups you-choose facts Genealogy of ideas. 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. Austin Kleon teacher book ideas The only way to find your voice is to use it Austin Kleon voice use way Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.) Austin Kleon boring done way You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with. Austin Kleon moved-on letting-go stuff 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." Austin Kleon influence said facts That’s the thing you have to understand about the whole process of art (or the work that we do) – you’re only half of the equation. It’s an interaction between you and the person who’s going to experience the work. The person who’s going to experience the work is bringing just as much to it and is just as important as you are. Austin Kleon important half art What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original. Austin Kleon good-art creative artist 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. Austin Kleon energy creative stuff Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. Austin Kleon mashups remix ideas The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others. Austin Kleon turns teach minutes Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder. Austin Kleon hard-work brain looks There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income. Austin Kleon numbers average thinking
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