Quotes About Death Of An Artist

#1. A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

Robin Trower

#2. The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#3. The earth doesn't care where death occurs ... It's the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking a photograph of it, that makes the earth powerful and creates death's memory. Because the land will not remember by itself, but the artist will.

Sally Mann

#4. Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Dan Simmons

#5. Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

Christian Boltanski

#6. The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

Joseph Conrad

#7. Mediocrity is Death.

Suleman Abdullah

#8. No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that people like us hang on our wall and talk about long after their death. That the sum is greater than one part. That maybe one incident does not a life make.

Charles Martin

#9. Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

Don DeLillo

#10. Well, nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.

Dan Simmons

#11. Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. Jake the trapeze artist was a man who stared death in the face, while most nights I stared television in the face.

David Nicholls

#13. Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no.

Gore Vidal

#15. We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

James Dickey

#16. An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

John Cage

#17. Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

Dennis Hopper

#18. Some things are meant to live and die with an artist

J.R. Stewart

#19. 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.

Herbert Gold

#20. If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Steven Pressfield

#21. You may kill an artist or a thinker, but you cannot acquire his art or his thought. You may put a man do death because he loves his fellow-men, but you will not by so doing acquire the love which made his happiness.

Bertrand Russell

#22. A man can be an artist ... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

Christopher Walken

#23. Death is a unique opponent, in that death always wins......There's no shame in surrender when it's time to stop fighting. --- Kal (the tattoo artist)

Steven Rowley

#24. In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

Vincent Van Gogh

#25. Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.

Richard M. Nixon

#26. Logic, order, truth, reason, we consign them all to the oblivion of death," said one Surrealist manifesto. We must "cultivate the hatred of intelligence," said the leader of the Futurists, Filippo Marinetti, an artist hailed by Mussolini as the John the Baptist of Fascism.17

Leonard Peikoff

#27. Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have.

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#28. In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported ...

Allan Kaprow

#29. The artist is always dancing with death.

Marty Rubin

#30. She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of an artist.

Janet Flanner

#31. Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

Kiki Smith

#32. Leave me to die a lonely death.
An artist's death.
A writer's playground.
A painter's background.
A philosopher's bread and butter.
An endeavor that we
all face. I just hope that
I'm not the only one
there.

A.P. Sweet

#33. There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence in speaking them. That kind of assurance is death for an artist.

Christian Wiman

#34. He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

Irving Stone

#35. Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine.

Viola Di Grado

#36. 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.

Sylvester Stallone

#37. I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

Art Spiegelman

#38. All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Jacques Lipchitz

#39. The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

David Steindl-Rast

#40. Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

David Lynch

#41. 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.

Madeleine L'Engle

#42. Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

Michael Dirda

#43. What to paint was a problem for the war artist ... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever ... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

A. Y. Jackson

#44. If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest ... she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

Ned Rorem

#45. I say that the true artist seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own human conscience.

J.D. Salinger