Seth Godin Quotes

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

Without freedom there is no art.

Art is a platform where self-expression should not be limited. I'm here to inspire. There is no age limit to that.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

As a writer, you are free.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

I can paint in jail.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.