Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon’s Followers (6,838)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
Alvarex
2,350 books | 184 friends

John Martz
2,642 books | 151 friends

Erin Ni...
825 books | 130 friends

Kristen
758 books | 104 friends

Riccard...
210 books | 64 friends

Alyssa
344 books | 54 friends

Holly W...
788 books | 187 friends

todd
976 books | 116 friends

More friends…

Austin Kleon

Goodreads Author


Website

Twitter

Genre

Member Since
January 2010

URL


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/ ...more

Don’t Call It Art is out now!

Buy the book

Finally — finally! — after 7 years, there’s a new book of mine out in the world: Don’t Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again is now available wherever you buy books.

Don’t Call It Art is a creative liberation handbook of art lessons I learned while being a studio assistant to my two young boys. It will teach you to unlearn what you’ve learned, give yourself per

Read more of this blog post »
8 likes ·   •  3 comments  •  flag
Share on Twitter
Published on June 02, 2026 15:59
Average rating: 3.99 · 433,583 ratings · 17,670 reviews · 23 distinct worksSimilar authors
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Th...

3.97 avg rating — 345,682 ratings — published 2012 — 73 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to...

4.07 avg rating — 63,110 ratings — published 2014 — 29 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay...

4.26 avg rating — 17,906 ratings — published 2019 — 36 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Newspaper Blackout

3.92 avg rating — 2,490 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Steal Like an Artist Au...

4.14 avg rating — 2,031 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Steal Like an Artist Jo...

4.18 avg rating — 1,597 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Don't Call It Art: 10 Ways ...

4.53 avg rating — 105 ratings4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Criatividade: um box para q...

4.60 avg rating — 45 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
Accendi le tue idee. Il dia...

4.29 avg rating — 38 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
ملخص أسرق كفنان

4.15 avg rating — 39 ratings
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Austin Kleon…

Related News

Before Gutenberg, all these monks were hand-copying the Bible into beautiful illuminated manuscripts. Now, with the Internet and digital...
13 likes · 14 comments
Changing My Mind:...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
How to Talk So Ki...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 

Austin’s Recent Updates

Austin Kleon wrote a new blog post

Don’t Call It Art is out now!






Buy the book
Finally — finally! — after 7 years, there’s a new book of mine out in the world: Don’t Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again Read more of this blog post »
More of Austin's books…
Quotes by Austin Kleon  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”
Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.”
Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?”
Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.”
Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

127776 Ask Austin Kleon - Thursday, March 13th! — 200 members — last activity Mar 13, 2014 07:59PM
Join us on Thursday, March 13th, for a special discussion with author Austin Kleon! The author will be discussing his book Show Your Work. Become a f ...more
31804 Harper Perennial — 89 members — last activity Nov 09, 2011 12:38AM
Good books for cool people.
No comments have been added yet.