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.

William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which...
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which...
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which...
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which...
About This Quote

It is said that Claude Monet was so prolific and prolifically productive that he produced up to 3,000 works of art. If you were to look at a painting by him and then look at the same painting two hundred years later, it will still be beautiful, just as if it was just painted yesterday. This quote is meant to remind us that we only have one life and we need to spend it doing something meaningful and making a difference in the world.

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