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Each of the
arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and
grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being
found worthy to preside over them.
-- Eliza Farnham
American Author and Social
Reformist
An artist is a
creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose
him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
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. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible
for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal
since it will always move. This is the artist's way of
scribbling ''Kilroy was here'' on the wall of the final and
irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
-- William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
In a decaying
society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay.
And unless it wants to break faith with its social function,
art must show the world as changeable. And help to change
it.
-- Ernst Fischer
1899-1972, Austrian Editor,
Poet, Critic
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I don't want
life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
-- Carrie Fisher
1956-, American Actress,
Novelist
Art for art's
sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the
present time. It is the one orderly product which our
middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand
sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the
lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence
we can have of our dignity.
-- Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist,
Essayist
In art as in
love, instinct is enough.
-- Anatole France
1844-1924, French Writer
One thing that
makes art different from life is that in art things have a
shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the
moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and
tongue and tear.
-- Marilyn French
1929-, American Author,
Critic
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