A Quote by Flannery O'Connor

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

Flannery O'Connor

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Artist Business Strangeness Truth Uncover

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Flannery O'Connor
American - Novelist
March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964

You can run from the truth. You can run and hide from the truth. You can deny and avoid the truth. But you cannot destroy the truth. Nor can you make the lie true. You must know that love will always uncover the truth.

Delano Johnson

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

Robbie Williams

Without music I wouldn't have the ability to be in business. The opportunity to be in business came with the finances from music and the notoriety that comes with being successful as an artist. So I see myself as an artist first, but I'm absolutely conscious of business.

Curtis Jackson

Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

Terence McKenna

As a kid, I learned from my parents, teachers, coaches, and friends that what mattered most was Truth - to uncover it, share it and fight for it. That core value is the foundation of the American Dream. And my life has been about fighting for Truth, at every step.

Shiva Ayyadurai

Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth.

Jagadish Chandra Bose

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

Edward St Aubyn

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

Albert Camus

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

Donny Osmond

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

Andy Warhol

I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

Richard Davidson

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.

John Van Hamersveld

When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.