Kris Kristofferson Quotes

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became an artist because I didn't know what to do and I thought it was really fun to make things.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever. It is to create something that will.

I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Death will destroy my body, but my creatures will keep on living ever after, in the years to come.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller more than someone who had something meaningful to say.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

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

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

The people that impress me are Bob Dylan. The ones who keep working, year in and year out, and keep coming up with stuff.

That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.