Art Quote by Flannery O'Connor Download Open image “The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.” — Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Reason Use
Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out. — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it… — Tyga Copy Share Image
The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in...He has not created something,he has seen something. — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of… — Anselm Kiefer 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
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
