Ocupation: Writer
Life: June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005
Birthday: June 10
Death: April 5
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.
source: In George Plimpton Writers at Work (1967) 3rd series, p. 190
topic: Art, Prayer, Eye, Eye Of The Storm