Anthony Quinn Quotes

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the success over it or the critical rejection—none of that really matters. In the end, the thing will survive or not on its own merits. Not that immortality via art is any big deal. Truffaut died, and we all felt awful about it, and there were the appropriate eulogies, and his wonderful films live on. But it’s not much help to Truffaut.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

I'm really taken by the fact that my photographs live on somebody's wall.

I try to give my work everything I've got, because when you're dead or you're out of the business or you're in an old actors' home somewhere, if you've done a good job, your work will still be 16 years old and dancing and healthy and pirouetting and arabesquing all over the place. And they'll say, "That's who he is! He's not this decaying skeleton."

I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.

My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.

I want to be remembered as an artist who was really passionate about his work. And as an inspiration. I do what I do to inspire people.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.

An author departs, he does not die.

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it.