Art Quote by Flannery O'Connor

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless…

— Elizabeth Bishop

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

— Henry James

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of…

— Ali Smith

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

— Rebecca Solnit

It is not art in the professionalized sense about which I care, but that which is created sacredly, as a result of a deep…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have…

— Eugenio Montale

As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular,…

— Julia Cameron

“Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.”

— Thomas Merton

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.

— Al Jourgensen

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

— Robert Hughes

“Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or forces, the…

— Christian Wiman

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

— Henry Rollins