Philosophy of Mind Quote by Walpola Rahula

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

— 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

“After all, the world population of artists has exploded, almost no one is not an artist now; in turning our attention inward, so have…

— Nicole Krauss

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

— Ray Bradbury

“The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. This unfinished work of…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Remember, art is an extension of self. ......... The unique distinction of being created in the image of God is that what we create…

— Erwin Raphael McManus

“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

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

“Human will becomes truly creative and truly our own when it is wholly God’s, and this is one of the many senses in which…

— C.S. Lewis

“The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life.”

— Asanaro

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

“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue…

— Muriel Barbery