Quotes about Creativity
The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.
— Seth Godin
Art is original. Marcel Duchamp was an artist when he pioneered Dadaism and installed a urinal in a museum. The second person to install a urinal wasn't an artist, he was a plumber.
— Seth Godin
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
— Seth Godin
Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.
— Seth Godin
Life's too short to fight the forces of change. Life's too short to hate what you do all day. Life's way too short to make mediocre stuff.
— Seth Godin
Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist.
— Seth Godin
Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map—these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.
— Seth Godin
Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success.
— Seth Godin
Great teachers are wonderful. They change lives. We need them. The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average. Why
— Seth Godin
You will never become a category of one if you run with the pack.
— Seth Godin
Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing.
— Seth Godin
Our society is struggling because during times of change, the very last people you need on your team are well-paid bureaucrats, note takers, literalists, manual readers, TGIF laborers, map followers, and fearful employees.
— Seth Godin