Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“These, said Conrad, knew the world by systematic examination. To begin with the artist had only himself; he descended within himself and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
