Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Art, Creativity, Effort

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.189, Macmillan

• There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Art, Philosophical, Unique

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.76, Macmillan

• The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Art, Matter, Art Is

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.65, Macmillan

• Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Art, Staying, Limitation

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.171, Macmillan

• 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 seen and the thing being made.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Art, Self, Order

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.82, Macmillan

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