Flannery O'Connor Quotes
No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.
Quotes to Explore
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
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The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.
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Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.
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All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?
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The combine's a great experience, and I'm sure everyone will tell you the same thing. Cool experience, lots of fun, would never want to do it again.
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No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.
