Boris Pasternak Quotes

No art is possible without a dance with death.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.

Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.

When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

In greatness, life and death merge.

We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art. We familiarize them and if we're more honest, we'd be far more relaxed about them.

Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.