Flannery O'Connor, Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard To Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Essays And Letters Quotes
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.
Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.