Motion is life...

[fajrdrako]

"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, 1897 - 1962

Though I don't think this is well expressed, I like the notion that 'motion' is 'life'. It isn't literally true but there's a poetic insight to it.

Comments

[wiredblowfish.livejournal.com]

"hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

I like this part. It never ceases to be amazing to me as a reader. That something written 100+ years ago can make me laugh, cry, learn, change. Literature (art) can be an amazing sort of immortality.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So true: It's amazing. Read Homer or Chaucer or Shakespeare - there may be a language difficulty, but get over that, and the emotions are as clear and real as they ever were. I love that. It's our real-life time machine, little windows on people of the past.