Artistic Demise Quotes

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

I do indeed think that cinema is mortal. There is a lot of evidence already that it is dying on its feet.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

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

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend.

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.