Seth Godin Quotes

If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

Seth Godin

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• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
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• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
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• The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Artist
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• We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Artist
  • Vision
  • Picture

• Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

  

  Larry Wall
  • You
  • Artist
  • Hubris

• Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • People
  • Live
  • Artist

• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Artist
  • Wrong

• My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Perception

• Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
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• If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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  • End

• Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Good
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• A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

  

  Edith Evans
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• I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
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• I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Artist

• With Ibrahim al-Koni, what I figured out was - and you'll see this in his novels - if your time is limited, make the unit of the chapters small so that you can finish one a day, at least in the first draft. Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and so on. But get that first draft. I think if I'd gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.

  

  Elliott Colla
  • Program
  • Finish
  • Novels

• I came to rock at this party Cause I can make you feel alright Sweet boy, you're rocking your body I'll get you straight to the night Oh oh, you want this body Oh oh, you want it now Sweet boy, you're rocking your body Cause I'm gon make you mine tonight

  

  Christophe Le Friant
  • Night
  • Party
  • Rock

• If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Artist
  • Not Work