Art Quote by William Faulkner Download Open image “The writer's only responsibility is to his art.” — William Faulkner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Responsibility Writing
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product. — Richard McKenna Copy Share Image
“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.” — Kayla Rae Whitaker Copy Share Image
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting. — John Cage Copy Share Image
The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art. — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
