All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Quote by Jacques Lipchitz

Topics: Death Quotes

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented...

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented...

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If...

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If...

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to...

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to...

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you...

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you...

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of...

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of...

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things...

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things...

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows...

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows...

The fear of death is more to be dreaded then fear itself.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded then fear itself.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as...

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the...

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the...

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is...

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is...

Courage leads to heaven; fear to death.

Courage leads to heaven; fear to death.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches,...

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches,...

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only...

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only...

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's...

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's...