Didacticism is the death of art.

I don't like things I work on to have political didacticism - there are questions, but not messages.

— Jonathan Nolan

“I’ve always had a dislike of any form of didacticism, especially when it becomes the dominant element in writing. Character and emotional content should…

— Peter Taylor

The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child…

— Reynolds Price

Death is an art, you know.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Repetition is the death of art.

— Robin Green

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

— Pablo Picasso

“Everything is art,' Tim says, a far-off look suddenly clouding those hazel eyes. 'Death is art. Life is art. Pain is art.”

— Jen Violi

Competition is the death of art.

— Dana Gould

“For some death is an art, for others it is merely an inevitability.”

— Sadie S. Forsythe

If you study the history of mankind, it seems to be a history of violence. Certainly the history of art, whether you look at…

— Ethan Hawke

In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery…

— George Bernard Shaw

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

— Maurice Sendak

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists…

— Justina Chen Headley

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

— Aaron Rose

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe