Keep Going

Keep Going

Author: Austin Kieon Created time: March 20, 2021 10:35 PM Page No.: 224 Progress: ✔️

What I am going to to do after reading it?

• Always have why you are doing something in first place.
• I am going to use plugin that will disable the analytes from the websites.
• At Least become good human being first.

Points

• Art
  • If making your art is ruining anyone’s life, including your own, it is not worth making.
  • The easiest ways to hate something you love is to turn it into your job.
  • Being creative is not heating what you do.
  • Not knowing is what make art good.
• How to live?
  • Don't worry about result just enjoy the process.
  • Write down in morning what you want to do in the day.
  • You can never get something without work.
  • A free creative life is not about living within your means, it’s about living below your means.
  • Don't be good at thing, be good human being.
  • Never wake up with seeing news.
• What to do & not to do?
  • Go easy on yourself and take your time.
  • Worry less about getting things done.
  • Worry more about things worth doing.
  • Worry less about being a great artist.
  • Worry more about being a good human being who makes art.
  • Worry less about making a mark.
  • Worry more about leaving things better than you found them.
• Download a browser plugin that makes the numbers disappear from social media.
• Slogans
  • Good slogans
  • FIRST, DO NO HARM.
  • LEAVE THINGS BETTER THAN YOU FOUND THEM.
  • Bad slogans.
  • MAKE YOUR MARK.
  • PUT A DENT IN THE UNIVERSE.
  • MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS.

Stories

The writer David Sedaris is a born tidier. He tells childhood stories about vacuuming and cleaning up after his siblings. When he sold his first book, he was cleaning houses in Manhattan. Now he’s a rich bestselling author and lives in a village west of London. Do you know how he spends most of his day? Picking up trash on the side of the road.

That’s right: One of our most popular living authors estimates that he a garbage truck after him: “Pig Pen Sedaris.” He’s best known to his neighbors as a litter picker. When the West Sussex County Times wrote about him, they didn’t even mention he was a writer.

Resources

• Twenty-Four Hours a Day - Richmond Walker
• The Gift - Lewis Hyde
• Daily Rituals - Mason Currey

Quote

“I think I need to keep being creative, not to prove anything but because it makes me happy just to do it . . . I think trying to be creative, keeping busy, has a lot to do with keeping you alive.”

—Willie Nelson

“None of us know what will happen. Don’t spend time worrying about it. Make the most beautiful thing you can. Try to do that every day. That’s it.”

—Laurie Anderson

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

—Annie Dillard

“Relying on craft and routine is a lot less sexy than being an artistic genius. But it is an excellent strategy for not going insane.”

—Christoph Niemann

“Your list is your past and your future. Carry at all times. Prioritize: today, this week, and eventually. You will someday die with items still on your list, but for now, while you live, your list helps prioritize what can be done in your limited time.”

—Tom Sachs

“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes of all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning, we cannot begin to see. Unless we see, we cannot think.”

—Thomas Merton

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

—Gertrude Stein

“Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads and idiots and movie stars.”

—Dorothea Tanning

“I paint with my back to the world.”

—Agnes Martin

“You have to have done something before you can be said to have done something. The title of artist or architect or musician needs to somehow be earned.”

—Dave Hickey

You are only responsible for your work so DO IT.

—Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse

“No artist can work simply for results; he must also like the work of getting them.”

—Robert Farrar Capon

“Don’t make stuff because you want to make money—it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous—because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people—and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.”

—John Green

“What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person.”

—Jorge Luis Borges

“It’s as true today as it ever was: He who seeks beauty will find it.”

—Bill Cunningham

“Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.”

—Frederick Franck

“For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. That’s pretty much all the info you need.”

—Amy Krouse Rosenthal

“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”

—José Ortega y Gassett

“I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.”

—Claes Oldenburg

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

The artist’s natural state is one of not-knowing.

— Donald Barthelme

“Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books . . . To be sure, the books of the future would be just as good a corrective as the books of the past, but unfortunately we cannot get at them.”

—C. S. Lewis

"Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can’t put it all back together again. What you can do is the only thing that you can do. You take two things that ought to be together and you put them together.”

—Wendell Berry

“Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.”

—Maira Kalman

“Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long.”

—May Sarton