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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

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

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

Saul Bellow
Art, Prayer, Eye

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

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Saul Bellow
Witty, Art, Philosophy
1969 Mr Sammler's Planet, ch.2.

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".

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

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

Saul Bellow
Art, Order, Chaos

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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