Art Quote by Joyce Johnson Download Open image “Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.” — Joyce Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Death Legends Seems
When a person becomes a legend, the very thing that makes them human and knowable is killed off, so it's like being killed over… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
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… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend — Zlatan Ibrahimovic Copy Share Image
In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
“What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to such an… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves. — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
