Art Quotes by Tennessee Williams

All good art is an indiscretion.

— Tennessee Williams

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

— Tennessee Williams

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.

— Tennessee Williams

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that…

— Tennessee Williams

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say…

— Tennessee Williams

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns…

— Tennessee Williams

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the…

— Tennessee Williams

Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me,…

— Tennessee Williams

I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal…

— Tennessee Williams

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed…

— Tennessee Williams

When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that…

— Tennessee Williams

“Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made…

— Tennessee Williams