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1. "You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life." ~ Austin Kleon

2. "Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing." ~ Austin Kleon

3. "You don't want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes." ~ Austin Kleon

4. "Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by." ~ Austin Kleon

5. "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." ~ Austin Kleon

6. "Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self." ~ Austin Kleon

7. "So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work." ~ Austin Kleon

8. "Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts." ~ Austin Kleon

9. "In the end, creativity isn't just the things we choose to put in, it's the things we choose to leave out." ~ Austin Kleon

10. "Pretend to be making something until you actually make something." ~ Austin Kleon

11. "Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas." ~ Austin Kleon

12. "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." ~ Austin Kleon

13. "Strike all the adjectives from your bio. If you take photos, you're not an 'aspiring' photographer, you're not an 'amazing' photographer either. You're a photographer. Don't get cute. Don't brag. Just state the facts." ~ Austin Kleon

14. "Pretend to be something you're not until you are—fake it until you're successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them." ~ Austin Kleon

15. "Step 1: Wonder at something. Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you. You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about." ~ Austin Kleon

16. "Validation is for parking." ~ Austin Kleon

17. "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

18. "You'll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money." ~ Austin Kleon

19. "Don't try to be hip or cool. Being open and honest about what you like is the best way to connect with people who like those things, too." ~ Austin Kleon

20. "But now I realize that 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

21. "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." ~ Austin Kleon

22. "Make bad art." ~ Austin Kleon

23. "Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything." —Jonah Lehrer" ~ Austin Kleon

24. "Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to "watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives." Amateurs fit the same bill: They're just regular people who get obsessed by something and spend a ton of time thinking out loud about it." ~ Austin Kleon

25. "The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act," writes Clay Shirky in his book Cognitive Surplus." ~ Austin Kleon

26. "The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something." ~ Austin Kleon

27. "Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you." — Dan Harmon" ~ Austin Kleon

28. "All you need is a little space and a little time—a place to work, and some time to do it; a little self-imposed solitude and temporary captivity." ~ Austin Kleon

29. "Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it." —Derek Sivers" ~ Austin Kleon

30. "You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about. If everybody's wondering about apples, go wonder about oranges." ~ Austin Kleon

31. "the worst troll is the one that lives in your head." ~ Austin Kleon

32. "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

33. "Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder." ~ Austin Kleon

34. "Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library." ~ Austin Kleon

35. "Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes or look ridiculous in public. They're in love, so they don't hesitate to do work that others think of as silly or just plain stupid." ~ Austin Kleon

36. "Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. Jim Jarmusch" ~ Austin Kleon

37. "If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room." ~ Austin Kleon

38. "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

39. "Show just a little bit of what you're working on." ~ Austin Kleon

40. "School is one thing. Education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you're in school or not, it's always your job to get yourself an education." ~ Austin Kleon

41. "You're ready. Start making stuff." ~ Austin Kleon

42. "when people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past." ~ Austin Kleon

43. "Copying is about reverse-engineering." ~ Austin Kleon

44. "The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from." ~ Austin Kleon

45. "Ironically, really good work often appears to be effortless. People will say, "Why didn't I think of that?" They won't see the years of toil and sweat that went into it." ~ Austin Kleon

46. "Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards." ~ Austin Kleon

47. "The reason to copy your heroes and their style is so that you might somehow get a glimpse into their minds. That's what you really want - to internalize their way of looking at the wold. If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more that a knockoff." ~ Austin Kleon

48. "All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste," says public radio personality Ira Glass. "But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer." ~ Austin Kleon

49. "Good" can be a stifling word, a word that makes you hesitate and stare at a blank page and second-guess yourself and throw stuff in the trash. What's important is to get your hands moving and let the images come. Whether it's good or bad is beside the point. Make art." ~ Austin Kleon

50. "Write the book you want to read" ~ Austin Kleon

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