Seth Godin Quotes

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

The wonderful thing with some of the things I've done - most of them, really - is to be trusted. To be able to do your thing, to work on it, hone it into my gem of creativity!

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

When I work on my music, I always kind of just try to do my best work.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

None of the arts are any good unless you really are great at them.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.

The art of making art, is putting it together.