Artist Quotes by Tennessee Williams

11 Artist quotes by Tennessee Williams

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Williams’ poetic drama spills into his thoughts on the maker’s soul, and these eleven brief lines capture it. They mix his lyrical intensity with a tender appreciation for artistic struggle, delivering a succinct, moving portrait.

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All good art is an indiscretion.

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

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

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Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To…

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

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

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

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

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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…

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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was…

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

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“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans…

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People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in…

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They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the…

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You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.

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Guessing isn't knowing.

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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

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I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

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I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South…

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