Real Artists Don't Starve Quotes

“We don’t fake it till we make it. We believe it till we become it.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“When the right people advocate for your work, your success becomes more likely. Being good is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Skill is a prerequisite for creative success, but talent is only part of the equation. The rest is network.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“The reason many of us never self-actualize is because it’s easier to play a role in life than it is to become our true selves.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“This is the Rule of Creative Theft, which says greatness doesn’t come from a single great idea or eureka moment. It comes from borrowing other people’s work and building on it. We steal our way to greatness.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“If you don’t want your best work to die with you, you must train yourself to think and live differently than the ways we’ve been told artists behave. Don’t starve for your art. Help it thrive.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“Eventually, you have to decide who you are. You have to choose your role and own that identity. We don’t fake it till we make it. We believe it till we become it.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. —MICHELANGELO BUONAROTTI”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“What does it mean to be a "real artist"? It means you are spending your time doing the things that matter most to you. It means you don't need someone else's permission to create.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for

“When I notice myself resenting my clients and wanting to quit,” Melissa Dinwiddie said, “I realize I don’t need to quit. I just need to raise my prices. If you’re feeling resentment at all, you’re charging too little.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“Creativity is not about being original; it’s about learning to rearrange what has already been in a way that brings fresh insight to old material.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“OPPORTUNITIES MAY COME AND GO, BUT IN THE END, HARD WORK IS ALL WE CAN MEASURE.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“There is no right time. Finally, it just made more sense than it didn’t.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“Life is not fixed; things are always changing. We are either becoming more of our true selves or drifting into a false self.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“It’s easier to conform to what people expect than it is to stand out. But this is not the way great art is made, nor is it the way real artists are made.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“BENEFITS OF BREAKING THE RULES If we want to become artists, we are going to have to break some rules. We cannot do just what is expected of us. At some point, we must break away from the status quo and forge a new path. As it turns out, this is how creativity works best.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“WE FIRST APPROACH OUR ART NOT WITH OUR HANDS BUT WITH OUR minds.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. —KARL MARX”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored. Great artists do this their entire lives, never staying stuck in a single style even when it brings wealth and fame.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“We are either becoming more of our true selves or drifting into a false self. In”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“This is the Rule of the Scene, which says that places and people shape the success of our work far more than we realize. Location is not irrelevant. Place matters. As social psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi wrote, “Creativity is more likely in places where new ideas require less effort to be perceived.” The”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“There is no greater pain than living a lie when the truth is buried deep inside you.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for

“Here they are, the principles every Thriving Artist lives by— the Rules of the New Renaissance: 1.​The Starving Artist believes you must be born an artist. The Thriving Artist knows you must become one. 2.​The Starving Artist strives to be original. The Thriving Artist steals from his influences. 3.​The Starving Artist believes he has enough talent. The Thriving Artist apprentices under a master. 4.​The Starving Artist is stubborn about everything. The Thriving Artist is stubborn about the right things. 5.​The Starving Artist waits to be noticed. The Thriving Artist cultivates patrons. 6.​The Starving Artist believes he can be creative anywhere. The Thriving Artist goes where creative work is already happening. 7.​The Starving Artist always works alone. The Thriving Artist collaborates with others. 8.​ The Starving Artist does his work in private. The Thriving Artist practices in public. 9.​The Starving Artist works for free. The Thriving Artist always works for something. 10.​The Starving Artist sells out too soon. The Thriving Artist owns his work. 11.​The Starving Artist masters one craft. The Thriving Artist masters many. 12.​The Starving Artist despises the need for money. The Thriving Artist makes money to make art.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“We tend to see desperation as a vice, something to avoid. When someone is desperate, we can sense it, and it repels us. But there is another kind of desperation, the kind that says, “If this doesn’t work, I will find another way.” And that kind of desperation translates to passion, a powerful tool when directed at the right target.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“When you realize the career you’re in isn’t where you ultimately want to be, you may feel a similar sense of desperation.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“What got her there was not some lofty dream. It was gradual and persistent action in the right direction.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“We cannot create great art without continuing to create ourselves.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“Over the course of a lifetime, we may find ourselves facing new challenges at every turn, and when we do, we must remember that we are never done becoming who we are.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“Before you can create great art, you first have to create yourself.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“THE RULE OF RE-CREATION Sometimes in life, the script we’re given no longer fits the story we want to live. We realize the rules we were following were assigned by someone who did not have our best interests in mind.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

“Every time I run across something, it’s because I was looking for something else, which I consider real discovery. It’s when you don’t expect it that you really discover something.”
― Jeff Goins, Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age