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Category: Austin Kleon

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

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 the story you want to read.

advice, autsin-kleon, steal-like-an-artist, story, writing

When you find something you genuinely enjoy, don’t let anyone else make you feel bad about it. Don’t feel guilty about the pleasure you take in the things you enjoy. Celebrate them.

happiness, inspirational, lifestyle

Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.

austin-kleon, heroes, steal-like-an-artist, style

Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.

artists, inspirational

The best way to vanquish your enemies on the Internet? Ignore them.

enemies, humor, ignore, internet, life-hacks

Relax and breathe. The trouble with imaginative people is that we’re good at picturing the worst that could happen to us. Fear is often just the imagination taking a wrong turn. Bad criticism is not the end of the world. As far as I know, no one has ever died from a bad review. Take a deep breath and accept whatever comes.

criticism, fear, humor

Comments outnumber ideas.

comments, ideas

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original.

artist, creative, original

Art that only comes from the head isn’t any good.

Pablo Picasso was notorious for sucking the energy out of the people he met. His granddaughter Marina claimed that he squeezed people like one of his tubes of oil paints. You’s have a great time hanging out all day with Picasso, and then you’s go home nervous and exhausted, and Picasso would go back to his studio and paint all night, using the energy he’d sucked out of you.

art, austin-kleon, pablo-picasso, painting, show-your-work

The great thing about remote or dead masters is that they can’t refuse you as an apprentice. You can learn whatever you want from them. They left their lesson plans in their work.

apprentice, learn, learning, masters