Seth Godin Quotes

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

You have to be creative. It's the basics. You can't be Picasso unless you know how to draw a real face; then you can turn it upside down.

An artiste's input, her ability to create dimensions within the given space is very important.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

... 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.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.