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Eudora Welty Quotes about Art

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No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

Eudora Welty
Art, Writing, Necks
Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

How can you go out on a limb if you do not know your own tree? No art ever came out of not risking your neck. And risk--experiment--is a considerable part of the joy of doing.

Eudora Welty
Art, Tree, Joy
Eudora Welty (1962). “Three Papers on Fiction”

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

Eudora Welty
Art, Feelings, Able

I'm not very eloquent about things like this, but I think that writing and photography go together. I don't mean that they are related arts, because they're not. But the person doing it, I think, learns from both things about accuracy of the eye, about observation, and about sympathy toward what is in front of you... It's about honesty, or truth telling, and a way to find it in yourself, how to need it and learn from it.

Eudora Welty
Photography, Art, Honesty

Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction.

Eudora Welty
Country, Art, Voice
Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.40, Modern Library

Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.

Eudora Welty
Art, Memories, Writing
Eudora Welty (2002). “On Writing”, Random House Digital, Inc.

Making reality real is art's responsibility.

Eudora Welty
Art, Real, Responsibility
Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.53, Modern Library

Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.

Eudora Welty
Lonely, Art, Real
Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.53, Modern Library

To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.

Eudora Welty
Art, Discovery, Practice

I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.

Eudora Welty
Art, Believe, Treasure

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