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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I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
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If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.
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You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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I always thought there was very little wit wanted to make a fortune in the City.
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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.
