340 Quotes by Austin Kleon

Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll either find the answer or you’ll come up with a better question.

I’ll often post something I loved making that took me forever and crickets chirp. I’ll post something else I think is sort of lame that took me no effort and it will go viral. If I let those metrics run my personal practice, I don’t think my heart could take it very long.

If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.

Colin Marshall says: “Compulsive avoidance of embarrassment is a form of suicide.” If you spend your life avoiding vulnerability, you and your work will never truly connect with other people.

The number one rule of the Internet: People are lazy. If you don’t include a link, no one can click it. Attribution without a link online borders on useless: 99.9 percent of people are not going to bother Googling someone’s name.

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

If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Always be reading. Go to the library. There’s magic in being surrounded by books.

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the money in the world, all the colors in the palette, anything you want – that just kills creativity.