“The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.” FactsEyeArtistDiesTurnsImaginationMereDetailsBeing TrueRumorCelestial Book:Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool
“I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.” FirstsSaidArtistDiesCareersCreativeHardestInevitability Author:Sylvester Stallone
“Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.” ArtSelfFormArtistValuesDiesCreationArt IsHolinessParadoxWorks Of ArtAffirmationBlundersRebuttal Author:Madeleine L'Engle
“Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.” ThinkingSeemsArtistDiesHoursPassingPassings Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen
“Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of those who feel them. There is no history of art -- there is the history of artists.” FeelsHeartArtSoulFeelingsArtistDiesUniqueCarrieArt Life Author:Marianne von Werefkin