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“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 quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
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“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“All art requires courage.”
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“While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.”
Odilon Redon quotes (French Symbolist Painter, lithographer and etcher. 1840-1916)
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“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”
Claude Monet quotes (French painter, initiator and leader of the Impressionist style, 1840-1926)
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“Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”
Aristotle quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
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