Austin Kleon Quotes

Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.

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• It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Find
  • Hard

• Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.

  

  Beck
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Find

• I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Best
  • Better
  • Find

• I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • History
  • Girl
  • Find

• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • Man
  • Find

• I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Interesting
  • Journey
  • Find

• History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • History
  • Best
  • Find

• I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Work
  • Find
  • Meet

• In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Find

• I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Up
  • Think
  • You

• I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Nice
  • Find

• As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Football
  • Share
  • Street

• When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Find
  • Kiss
  • Right Person

• That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Great
  • Different
  • Single

• I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Day
  • Find

• It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • True
  • Movie
  • Hand

• When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Way
  • Find
  • Down

• There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Real
  • You
  • Find

• I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Me
  • Find
  • Warmth

• You don’t have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be part of a scene to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be perfect to know Jesus. You don’t even have to be semi-perfect to know Jesus. You just have to be willing, and open, and honest.

  

  Aaron Gillespie
  • Perfect
  • Jesus
  • Willing

• We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Heart
  • Driven
  • Pure

• At the end of the week, my husband and I do a leftovers dinner, where we have to use whatever's in the fridge. It's sort of a game.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Game
  • Husband
  • End

• Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.

  

  Austin Kleon
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