340 Quotes by Austin Kleon

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.

You and I will be around a lot longer than Twitter, and nothing substitutes face to face.” – Rob Delaney It.

Whether I went to school or not, I would always study.” – RZA.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like.

In order to be found, you have to be findable.

In the digital age, don’t forget to use your digits!

You have to find a place that feeds you – creatively, socially, spiritually, and literally. Even.

Our failure to copy our heroes is where we discover where our own thing lives. That is how we evolve.

Don’t be creepy. Don’t be a jerk. Don’t waste people’s time. Don’t ask too much.