Acting Quote by Ray Bradbury

Art is a form of consciousness.

— Susan Sontag

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness.

— Andre Dubus

Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.

— Susan Sontag

“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves…

— Walpola Rahula

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation.”

— Richard Appignanesi

The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of…

— Christopher Booker

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

— Henry James

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a…

— Steven Pressfield

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

— Herbert Read

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…

— Flannery O'Connor