black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

William Faulkner

Related Topics

Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Between Choice Choose Experience Given Nothing Pain Path
Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Else Infact Look Nobody See Slightly Someone Taken Together Truth
Civilization begins with distillation
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Begin Civilization Distillation One Liner
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Anywhere Book Else Live Love Perhaps Put Right
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Can Happy Must Suffer Will
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Damnable Fear Human Most Personally Thing Whole World
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Act Believe Courage Decency Demand Great Help Know Meet Problem Respect Self
Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Be Beter To Try Yourself
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bricklaying Interest Let Mechanical Shortcut Surgery Take Technique Write Writer
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts… That’s because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Fact Interest Poet Really Truth Wrong
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bad Better Booze Fifty Fool Happen Man Other Some Such Thing Until Whiskey
If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Children Color Country Culture Desperate Matter Murder Probably Reach Reason Survive
If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green…
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Because Choose Color Country Elect First Front Homogeneous One Present Survive Unbroken World
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

All Being Country Left Like Love Meddle People Person Snob Time
Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Cross Duty Human Inside Race Reminder Scent Symbol Whatever
Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Afraid Be Help Scared

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes