Seth Godin Quotes

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

I think about all the people who have created something that lives after them - works of art, plays, music, films, literature, poetry that will be read, seen, performed, and heard for the rest of time. If I could do something that lives after me, then I think I will have had a life well led.

A comic is a way of literally experiencing someone else's vision with a purity that I don't think any other medium offers; there are no technical, electronic or financial limitations; one only has to work harder to improve. Lately I think a new attitude has prevailed that comics aren't inherently an Art form, but that some cartoonists are genuinely artists.

As an artist, I want a reaction.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

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

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.