European modernism inside.

Life is motion and motion is concerned with what makes man move--which are ambition, power, pleasure.... The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that 100 years later when a stranger looks at it, it moves again because it is life.
William Faulkner, "Interview with Jean Stein Vanden Heuvel" (239, 253)