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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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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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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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?
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I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for a lot of personal information about my past or who I am. I would rather the personal side of it just be in the concepts and the genuine feelings that I filter through my work. I know that it's inevitable that people can find whatever they want about me. Once I've had a chance to create a language and a world with my art, then I'm more comfortable sharing that information.
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There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do.
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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.
