Austin Kleon - Work Quotes

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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
Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

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Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

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What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

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It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

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So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.

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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.

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Dig into almost every overnight success story and you'll find about a decade's worth of hard work and perseverance.

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