Austin Kleon – Page 234

Stop the lap dance I want to go home

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

This is a page from The Book of Shrigley by David Shrigley. Whenever things get rough for me I like to say it to cheer myself up: “Stop the lap dance I want to go home.”

Pity those who have not thick mittens

Monday, January 28, 2019

The Polar Vortex is about to blow in up here on the lake, and I’m thinking of Thoreau, with his frozen ink and breaking up the water in his pail with a hammer. “Pity those who have not thick mittens,” he wrote in his journal. I’m up here in the attic with my fingerless gloves and the space heater, scratching away like Bob Cratchit…

The fishes of thought

Sunday, January 27, 2019

“Wise Men Fish Here,” original Gotham Book Mart sign

“Ideas,—are they the fishes of thought?”
—Henry David Thoreau, January 26, 1852

“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.”
—David Lynch, Catching The Big Fish

“Ideas are like fish.”
—@DAVID_LYNCH pic.twitter.com/h9HAZmrVHg

— Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) July 9, 2016

“You got to think lucky. If you fall into a mud hole, check your back pocket. You might have caught a fish.”
—Darrell Royal

“Look at your fish.”
—Louis Agassiz

First signing

Saturday, January 26, 2019

Signed my first copies of Keep Going (they were galleys, but still!) — at the Winter Institute in Albuquerque this week. I had a blast and met so many terrific booksellers. Can’t wait to get out on tour in April and sign more for y’all… (Stay tuned.)