Austin Kleon Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

2. First, you figure out what's worth stealing, then you move on to the next thing. When you look at the world this way, you stop worrying about what's "good" and what's "bad". there's only stuff worth stealing, and stuff that's not worth stealing. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

3. If you don't find something worth stealing today, you might find it worth stealing tomorrow or a month or a year from now. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

4. The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

5. Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

6. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels yourimagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings,photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light andshadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to yourshadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to yoursoul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

7. Teach what you know. The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy

8. You find time the same place you find spare change: in the nooks and crannies. You find it in the cracks between the big stuff—your commute, your lunch break, the few hours after your kids go to bed. The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy