The Autonomous Creative

Discovering your creative system (and the perpetual motion machine), with Austin Kleon

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Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, and Keep Going. Before all of that, he'd been a librarian, a web designer, and an advertising copywriter. Discover Austin’s path to becoming a famous author, how he successfully navigated that pivot, and the vast web of influences that inspire his creative work and daily life.


More from the episode…

  • Austin describes the “catalytic moment” he met cartoonist Lynda Barry, and how it transformed his creative practice.
  • Why obscurity, especially at the beginning of your creative career, can actually be a positive thing.
  • How does working in public view continue to feed his creative process?
  • What is Austin’s “perpetual motion machine” for producing new material, and how did he discover it?
  • When do you know if a creative work is finished? Is it ever?

    • About Austin Kleon

    Austin Kleon is the New York Times bestselling author of a trilogy of illustrated books about creativity in the digital age: Steal Like An Artist, Show Your Work!, and Keep Going. He’s also the author of Newspaper Blackout, a collection of poems made by redacting the newspaper with a permanent marker. His books have been translated into dozens of languages and have sold over a million copies worldwide. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and sons.

    Connect with Austin

    https://austinkleon.com

    twitter.com/austinkleon

    instagram.com/austinkleon


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