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Old 12-22-2010, 03:34 PM   #1006
WT Sharpe
Bah, humbug!
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
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
I think he's confusing the aim of artists with the aim of occult practitioners who cast spells on paintings in haunted houses! THE PAINTING IS ALIVE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
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