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... An arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Saul Bellow

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Topic

Power of art Art

Speaker

Saul Bellow

Source

Writers at Work

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Bellow, Saul. Quoted in Writers at Work by George Blimpton. Third series. Penguin Books, 1977.

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Language
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Time
1963 1960s 20th century
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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

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Modern art Power of art Art

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Susan Sontag
Source
Freak Show The New York Review of Books
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.