“When you pay attention to your life, it not only provides you with the material for your art, it also helps you fall in love with your life.” - Austin Kleon

Pay Attention

“New ideas are formed by interesting juxtapositions, and interesting juxtapositions happen when things are out of place.” - Austin Kleon

Juxtapositions

”Art is also made out of what is ugly or repulsive to us. Part of the artist’s job is to help tidy up the place, to make order out of chaos, to turn trash into treasure, to show us beauty where we can’t see it.” - Austin Kleon

Repulsive Beauty

“There is no finish line or retirement for the creative person.” - Austin Kleon

Returem

“Creativity is about connection - you must be connected to others in order to be inspired and share your own work - but it is also without disconnection. You must retreat from the world long enough to think, practice your art, and bring forth something worth sharing with others.” - Austin Kleon

Connection Vs. Disconnection

”None of us know what will happen. Don’t spend time worrying about it. Make the most beautiful thing you can. Try to do that everyday. That’s it.”

”Life is an art, not a science. Your mileage may vary. Take what you need and leave the rest.” - Austin Kleon

Life as Art

”There is Art left to be made in this world.” (1956-2018) ❤️

“No artist can work simply for results; he must also like the work of getting them.” - <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/nyregion/robert-f-capon-who-wrote-of-god-and-food-dies-at-87.html">Robert Farrar Capon</a>

Enjoying The Process

“Every day is a potential seed that we can grow into something beautiful.” - Austin Kleon

Planting Seeds

<ul><li>“Drawing is simply another way of seeing, which we don’t really do as adults.” - <a href="https://art21.org/artist/chris-ware/">Chris Ware</a></li><li>”Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a mediation.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson, <a href="https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/art/the-minds-eye/">The Mind’s Eye</a></li><li>”If you draw, the world becomes more beautiful, far more beautiful.” - E.O. Plaven</li><li>”Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.” - <a href="http://www.frederickfranck.org">Frederick Franck</a> </li></ul>

Drawing

”I think I need to keep being creative, not to prove anything but because it makes me happy just to do it… I think trying to be creative, keeping busy, has a lot to do with keeping you alive.”

“Keep Going” by Austin Kleon teaches the creative to maintain their endurance and energy. There is no retirement in the creative’s life…

The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. And nothing is getting any easier! In his previous books—Steal Like an Artistand Show Your Work!, New York Times bestsellers with over a million copies in print combined—Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock their creativity and then showed them how to share it. Now he completes his trilogy with his most inspiring work yet. Keep Going gives the reader life-changing, illustrated advice and encouragement on how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself in the face of personal burnout or external distractions. Here is how to Build a Bliss Station—a place or fixed period where you can disconnect from the world. How to see that Every Day Is Groundhog Day—yesterday’s over, tomorrow may never come, so just do what you can do today. How to Forget the Noun, Do the Verb—stop worrying about being a “painter” and just paint. Keep working. Keep playing. Keep searching. Keep giving. Keep living. Keep Going. It’s exactly the message all of us need, at exactly the right time.

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The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. And nothing is getting any easier!  In his previous books—Steal Like an Artistand Show Your Work!, New York Times bestsellers with over a million copies in print combined—Austin Kleon gave readers the key to unlock their creativity and then showed them how to share it. Now he completes his trilogy with his most inspiring work yet.  Keep Going gives the reader life-changing, illustrated advice and encouragement on how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself in the face of personal burnout or external distractions. Here is how to Build a Bliss Station—a place or fixed period where you can disconnect from the world. How to see that Every Day Is Groundhog Day—yesterday’s over, tomorrow may never come, so just do what you can do today. How to Forget the Noun, Do the Verb—stop worrying about being a “painter” and just paint.  Keep working. Keep playing. Keep searching. Keep giving. Keep living. Keep Going. It’s exactly the message all of us need, at exactly the right time.

I’m a writer who draws. I make art with words and books with pictures. Author of Steal Like An Artist and other bestsellers. Visit my website: http://austinkleon.com/