Quote by William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by art

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. – William Faulkner

Other quotes by William Faulkner

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next. – William Faulkner

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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. – William Faulkner

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Gratitude
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Maybe it was because like not only finds like; it cant even escape from being found by its like. Even when its just like in one thing, because even them two with the same like was different. – William Faulkner

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To send light into the darkness of mens hearts – such is the duty of the artist. – Robert Schumann

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Art gives me the freedom I dont have when I make music. – Marilyn Manson

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. – Andre Gide

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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. – Charles Horton Cooley

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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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