Art Quote by Walpola Rahula

“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

Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the…

— Alex Grey

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— Andre Dubus

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

“When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware...So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then…

— Anonymous

“Forgetfulness is the catalytic germ of spontaneous creativity”

— Howard marks

“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

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

— Paul Twitchell

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

— Julia Cameron

“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all creativity.”

— Ray Bradbury