Art Immortality Quotes

#1. The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.

Anton Ehrenzweig

#2. With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

Hannah Arendt

#3. It is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

Santha Rama Rau

#4. There are only two classes of people in the world - people who lie and people who don't lie.

K.A. Hosein

#5. The best thing about Art is that the people who create it live forever.

Jonathan Heatt

#6. The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality

Udayveer Singh

#7. I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only immortality that you and I may share, my Lolita.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Sydney J. Harris

#9. I'll be home for Christmas. You can count on me.

Bing Crosby

#10. Immortality, thou art a chimerical bridesmaid of life.

Aporva Kala

#11. Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

Madame De Stael

#12. In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Effective PMs simply consider more alternatives before giving up than other people do.

Scott Berkun

#14. If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Arne Jacobsen

#15. Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

James Thurber

#16. If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.

John O'Donohue

#17. Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

Stephen King

#18. You are young men and not children. The idea is that art allows the child imprisoned inside the adult to come out to play and celebrate the world and its beauty." He said that art was intimately linked with immortality: a challenge to death and time, a celebration of life.

Sinan Antoon

#19. Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.

Peter Davis

#20. Brancheau was smiling, her long ponytail flaring out behind her. It was an endearing site: Man

Tim Zimmermann

#21. Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.

Damien Hirst

#22. There are no shortcuts through the wilderness of life.

Seth Adam Smith

#23. Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

Sergei Diaghilev

#24. I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

Charles Saatchi

#25. Buy art, build a museum, put your name on it, let people in for free. That's as close as you can get to immortality ...

Damien Hirst

#26. I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.

Steve Wozniak

#27. The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

Andre Malraux

#28. As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs ... The way I write is who I am, or have become ...

Joan Didion