Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“When we try to drill and practice someone into subservient obedience, we’re stamping out the artist that lives within.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you.… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Be remarkable Be generous Create art Make judgment calls Connect people and ideas . . . and we have no choice but to reward you.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Emotional labor is the hard work of making art, producing generosity, and exposing creativity. Working without a map involves both vision and… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Life is actually far better than it is in the movies. And it takes longer.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
