Show Your Work! Quotes

“In fact, sharing your process might actually be most valuable if the products of your work aren’t easily shared,”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“This is yet another trait of amateurs—they’ll use whatever tools they can get their hands on to try to get their ideas into the world.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Online, everyone—the artist and the curator, the master and the apprentice, the expert and the amateur—has the ability to contribute something.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“the “lone genius” myth: An individual with superhuman talents appears out of nowhere at certain points in history, free of influences or precedent, with a direct connection to God or The Muse.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“You're never "keeping it real" with your lack of punctuation and proofreading, you're keeping it unintelligible.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“When you put your work out into the world, you have to be ready for the good, the bad, and the ugly. The more people come across your work, the more criticism you’ll face.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“The stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they understand about your work affects how they value it.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Thinking about death every morning makes me want to live.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“The thing is, you never really start over. You don’t lose all the work that’s come before. Even if you try to toss it aside, the lessons that you’ve learned from it will seep into what you do next.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.” — Dan Harmon”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Having a form for comments is the same as inviting comments. “There’s never a space under paintings in a gallery where someone writes their opinion,” says cartoonist Natalie Dee.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“The trouble with imaginative people is that we’re good at picturing the worst that could happen to us.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“What you want is to follow and be followed by human beings who care about issues you care about. This thing we make together. This thing is about hearts and minds, not eyeballs.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“When you find things you genuinely enjoy, don’t let anyone else make you feel bad about it.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Suena un poco extremo, pero en el momento en que vivimos, si tu trabajo no está en la red, no existe. Todos tenemos la oportunidad de usar nuestra voz, de decir algo, pero muchos la estamos desaprovechando. Si quieres que la gente se entere de lo que haces y de las cosas que te interesan, tienes que aprender a compartir. “Recordar que un día no muy lejano moriré es la mejor herramienta que he encontrado para tomar las decisiones más importantes de mi vida.”
― Austin Kleon, Aprende a promocionar tu trabajo: 10 recursos para artistas, diseñadores y creativos

“good work isn’t created in a vacuum,”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“¿Y ahora qué?”. Si te fijas en los artistas que han logrado desarrollar carreras que duren toda una vida, descubrirás el mismo patrón: todos ellos han sido capaces de perseverar, con independencia de éxitos y fracasos. El director de cine Woody Allen ha sacado una película al año durante más de 40 años porque nunca descansa: el día que termina de montar una película es el día que se pone a escribir el guion de la siguiente. Bob Pollard, el cantante y compositor del grupo Guided by Voices, dice que nunca sufre bloqueos creativos porque nunca deja de componer. Ernest Hemingway se detenía en mitad de una frase al final de su jornada de trabajo para así saber dónde y cómo continuar a la mañana siguiente. La cantante y compositora Joni Mitchell cuenta que el punto débil de su último proyecto es la pista para el siguiente.”
― Austin Kleon, Aprende a promocionar tu trabajo: 10 recursos para artistas, diseñadores y creativos

“In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen- Brené Brown”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!

“People need to eat and pay the rent. “An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint,” said artist Ben Shahn. “A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.” Whether an artist makes money off his work or not, money has to come from somewhere, be it a day job, a wealthy spouse, a trust fund, an arts grant, or a patron.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities,” said Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki. “In the expert’s mind, there are few”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Build a good domain name, keep it clean, and eventually it will be its own currency. Whether people show up or they don’t, you’re out there, doing your thing, ready whenever they are.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“People often ask me, “How do you find the time for all this?” And I answer, “I look for it.” You find time the same place you find spare change: in the nooks and crannies. You find it in the cracks between the big stuff—your commute, your lunch break, the few hours after your kids go to bed. You might have to miss an episode of your favorite TV show, you might have to miss an hour of sleep, but you can find the time if you look for it. I like to work while the world is sleeping, and share while the world is at work.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes or look ridiculous in public. They're in love, so they don't hesitate to do work that others think of as silly or just plain stupid. [...] Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes or look
ridiculous in public. They're in love, so they don't hesitate to do work that others think of as silly or just plain stupid. [...] Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing
nothing.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Clay Shirky in his book Cognitive Surplus. “On the spectrum of creative work, the difference between the mediocre and the good is vast. Mediocrity is, however, still on the spectrum; you can move from mediocre to good in increments. The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

“Barry Hannah said to one of his students, “Have you tried making yourself a more interesting person?” This seems like a really mean thing to say, unless you think of the word interesting the way writer Lawrence Weschler does: For him, to be “interest-ing” is to be curious and attentive, and to practice “the continual projection of interest.” To put it more simply: If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered