Artistic Mortality Quotes

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

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

When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

When I die, so does hip hop.

I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

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

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

I think there's, you know, somewhere inside of us there's that - that fear of one day waking up and, you know, the fans - the fans move on to the next band or something.

We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.