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.

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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More Quotes By William Faulkner

1. The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

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2. She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.

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3. You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

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4. I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

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5. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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