Seth Godin Quotes

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

The saying "the business of art is different than the purpose of art" makes sense, and what are you going to do about that? You have some obligation to get the work out there, you believe in it enough that it should be out in the public, but of course it goes through a system that takes it pretty far away from the reasons you made them.

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

The arts are not a way to make a living.

Because many of the films I've made have had an intellectualedge, it's harder for me to lie. It's harder for me to go to peoplewith money and say I don't care about art, all I care about iscommerce; all I really want to do is make money.

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

Normal people do not create art.