Seth Godin Quotes

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's life. It is what hehas become through his work. Not how is the idea expressed in stone, or on canvas or paper, is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist. His true work will not stand in any prince's gallery.

I guess that storytelling would be for me to keep making art that touches people in a way that nothing else can.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.