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NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Don’t Call It Art is a creative liberation handbook inspired by what I learned from being a studio assistant to my creative kids:
USA Today & Publishers Weekly Bestseller
“If you’ve ever wondered how to get your childhood’s wild wacky and wonderfully weird imagination back, this is the book for you. With 10 practical steps, this is an inspiring, actionable guide to feeling like yourself again.”
—Barnes & Noble
“Cheery, upbeat lessons on creativity…. Full of fun, wryly witty wisdom (and quotes from such artists as John Cleese, Ray Bradbury, and Doris Lessing), this serves as a charming… reminder to let go in order to tap into one’s freest creative self. Artists who feel stuck will savor it.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Just a terrific book, I think Austin’s best — and exactly what I need right now as I contemplate a big change in my life a year down the road. This will be my guidebook, or rather my anti-guidebook, since if there’s one lesson everyone should learn from this book it’s how sad it is to know where you’re going.”
—Alan Jacobs, author of How To Think
“A smart and joyful book about how to make art like a kid.”
—Liana Finck, author of Passing for Human
“Really, there was just one problem with ‘Don’t Call It Art’—I kept stopping and wanting to do something. Work on something. Close the book. Get going! […] Ultimately, ‘Don’t Call It Art’ lowers the stakes and helps you get out of your own way when it comes to making art from your soul—the art you were destined to make…. A gem.”
—Neil Pasricha, author of The Happiness Equation
“It’s not just about the creative process… but a creative worldview, which children so naturally have and then we, as adults, crush in ourselves and in them. In Don’t Call It Art, Kleon is drawing on kid-inspired insights to pull creatives out of a rut (and I would say to bring back your love of the game). As he does in all of his books, he communicates the essence of writing and creating art better than anyone else I can think of.”
—Ryan Holiday, author of The Obstacle is the Way