Saul Bellow Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Prayer, Eye

  In George Plimpton Writers at Work (1967) 3rd series, p. 190

• Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Disappointment, Philosophy

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

• The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Prayer, Eye

• I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Attention, Distraction

  "Conversations with Saul Bellow".

• Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Design, Matter

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

• Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Order, Chaos

• The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Philosophy, Real

  1975 Humboldt's Gift.

• Conquered people tend to be witty.

  Saul Bellow

  Witty, Art, Philosophy

  1969 Mr Sammler's Planet, ch.2.

• Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Mean, Soul

• In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Real, Men

• I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Achievement, Chaos

  In George Plimpton 'Writers at Work' (1967) 3rd series, p. 190

• The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Realistic

  Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel (1994). “Conversations with Saul Bellow”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting - the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Philosophy, Science

  "The Adventures of Augie March". Book by Saul Bellow. Chapter 6, 1953.

• The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, America, Poetry

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.149, Penguin

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