Austin Kleon
Austin Kleon — Writer, artist, and New York Times bestselling author
Notes on creativity, writing, and sharing work online with a zine like feel.
austinkleon.comA blog is just a delivery system — a way to get eyeballs looking at your stuff (and minds thinking about it).
Austin Kleon has been blogging since 2001, and his site feels like a window into a creative mind that never stops making things. He's best known for his books on creativity — Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work! — but the blog is where the raw material lives: blackout poetry, hand-drawn art, curated mixtapes, and honest reflections on what it means to keep making stuff year after year.
Written by Austin Kleon since 2001.
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I like kid’s work more than work by real artists
I used this drawing by Jules (age 3 or 4 at the time) in my latest letter, “How I get into something new.” One reader said, “I LOVE Jules’ drawing! That overshadowed everything I just read!” The comment made me laugh, because that really was the first impulse for what became Don’t Call It Art, all those years ago: I just felt like what the kids was doing was so much more interesting than anything I was doing. Jean Michel Basquiat once said in an interview, “I like kids’ work more than work by r...
My next book: Don’t Call It Art!
Pre-order now! My next book is Don’t Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again. It was inspired by my time spent as a studio assistant to my two sons when they were really little and the lessons I learned from them about loving and caring for yourself as a creative person. The book is designed to put you back in touch with that wild and fearless 4-year-old kid that still lives inside you and wants to come out and play. The release date is June 2, but you can pre-order it now wherever you l...
Typewriter interview with Tom Hart
My latest typewriter interview is with cartoonist Tom Hart.
The Pricemaster
A new Tuesday Trio: On February 10th, 2001, a group of friends held a garage sale in Denton, Texas. The sale was immortalized in a surreal, 32-minute short documentary that has since become a cult classic. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the happening, today’s Tuesday Trio — one book, one record, and one movie based on a theme — is dedicated to The PriceMaster. Read the rest here.
Everything has been saved from a wreck
“Domination,” newspaper + marker, 2018 The subject line for Friday’s newsletter came from G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy: “Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege. I may express this other feeling of cosmic cosiness by allusion to another book always read in boyhood, Robinson Crusoe, which … owes its eternal vivacity to the fact that it celebrates the poetry of limits, nay, even the wild romance of prudence. Crusoe is a man on a...
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