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.
Quotes to Explore
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world first.
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I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
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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.
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When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.
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I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
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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.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
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Just do it until you figure out what you are doing. Then you do some more. Well, for myself I find that I need to do something again and again before I understand what it is that I am actually doing.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
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I always felt that if I did the right thing, that if I trained hard and worked hard, I'd be rewarded somehow.
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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.
