Tennessee Williams Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• All good art is an indiscretion.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Art Is, Good Art

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

• The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Fleeting, Moments

• When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.

  Tennessee Williams

  Fashion, Art, Writing

• It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Taken, Play

  Tennessee Williams (1979). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.4, Dramatists Play Service Inc

• I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Race, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Reality, Essence

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

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