Art Death Quotes

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.

Above all, the photographs I use are not arty in any sense of the word. I think photography is dead as fine art; its only place is in the commercial world, for technical or information purposes.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.