Addiction Quote by W.G. Sebald

“Death is my beat. I make my living from it. I forge my professional reputation on it. I treat it with the passion and…

— Michael Connelly

“Now, as never before, it was clear to him that art is always, ceaselessly, occupied with two things. It constantly reflects on death and…

— Boris Pasternak

“Art allows us to live many lives.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“Every time art receives life the artist dies a little bit”

— A. Mani

“Art is art and life is life, but to live life artistically; that is the art of life”

— Peter Altenberg

“This obsession with death and suffering revealed itself in literature, poetry, art, and particularly in sculpture, with the appearance of cadaver tombs with an…

— Alison Weir

“Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.”

— Margaret Atwood

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

— Ruth Asawa

“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Sadie S. Forsythe

“To be objective is to treat others as you treat an object, a corpse—to behave with them like an undertaker.”

— Emil Cioran