Quotes by Faulkner, William

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that wo >>

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, sin >>

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artific >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain >>

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. >>

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the o >>

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. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William