Art is Prayer: Attention Amidst Distraction | Saul Bellow

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that 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.

- Emily Temple, “The Best Argument Is a Good Book: Writing Advice From Saul Bellow”