Art Quote by William Faulkner

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

— William Faulkner

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life... and hold it fixed so that 100 years later, when a stranger…

— William Faulkner

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years…

— William Faulkner

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years…

— William Faulkner

“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with other human beings.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and…

— Medardo Rosso

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration,…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to…

— Stephanie Mills

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

— Ann Mortifee

Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.

— Haris Pasovic

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

— Tom Hiddleston

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

— Tom Robbins