“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
“I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.” KnowsWantLittlesRunningKidsArtistDiesActorsBitsInterestLittle BitDelusionSenateGrandeurTennesseeDelusions Of Grandeur Author:Tim McGraw
“Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.” IfsArtistDiesSimpleMediaTelevisionBillsRadioSavedScalesDevicesOld LadyMalnutritionFederationTelevision And Radio Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.” KnowsMatterAgeArtistDiesActorsNumbersDestinyWrittenYouthDramaSentencesOld AgeGloriousDelusionCoincidenceObscure Author:Eric Hoffer