Seth Godin Quotes

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

Seth Godin

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• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Art
  • May
  • Dream

• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Desire
  • Problems

• A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Nice

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Time
  • Art
  • Moment

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Art
  • Think

• I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Art
  • Fear

• Art is my life and my life is art.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Art
  • My Life

• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Pleasure

• Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

  

  John Hench
  • People
  • Art

• The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • People
  • Art
  • Black

• A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Good
  • Work
  • Serious

• How happy could I be with either, Were t' other dear charmer away!

  

  John Gay
  • Happy

• It's funny, I don't really feel that nostalgic. I only recently started putting up some photos from some of the sessions I've done over the years and some of the Garbage sessions because my daughter, who's 10-years-old, when she was about 6 or 7 she was more curious about what I do. I have all these platinum records and stuff, they've all just been in boxes in storage for years but I started just digging through those things because I sort of want her to be aware of my past. I never really put the old recordings on and listen to them and go, "Oh that sounds great."

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Daughter
  • Records
  • Boxes

• As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Willing