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You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

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Austin Kleon
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 16
Author
Musician
Visual Artist
Writer
Ohio
United States
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Surround
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Do good work and share it with people.
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Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'
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Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.
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So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.
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You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.
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Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.
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You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.
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Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.
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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.
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If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.
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Copying is about reverse-engineering.
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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.
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Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.
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Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.
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Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.
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You're ready. Start making stuff.
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