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Tennessee Williams Quotes about Art

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

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

Tennessee Williams
Art, Fleeting, Moments

All good art is an indiscretion.

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

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

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

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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