Seth Godin Quotes

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

All art is based on non-conformity.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

If you paint a picture and I paint a picture, we each want to do it our own way. And we'll stand or fall on whatever we did.

As a creative, you have to be your truest form. You can't worry about fitting into whatever boxes people want to put you in.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and no one else's. This is why it is difficult to fit the artist into a world that has already been created, a seven-day, fixed and solidified world: he will inevitably slip out of the set of laws and paragraphs, he will be a heretic.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.