Seth Godin Quotes

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

I get to be creative and touch other people's lives.

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

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.

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

Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society and advances the state of the art, hopefully in an outsized way?

I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.

At this point, in 2008, if you put out a book, a movie, or write a verse, paint a painting, it should have some sort of social value.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.

If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.