Bohemian Life Quotes

#1. The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.

Pontus Hulten

#2. I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.

Wade Guyton

#3. For a long time this Bohemian life was taken to be the ideal for the artist, and it has come in the last few decades to be considered an ideal for more than the artist.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#4. I thought I'd be living a much more bohemian life and be very poor. I never thought I'd do comedy or be married living in the suburbs. Every time I try to plan my life out it just doesn't come to pass, and I think that's a great experience.

Michael Ian Black

#5. I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had ... maybe I could even quit renting.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

Philip K. Dick

#7. Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.

Evan Davis

#8. There are moths outside, ready to die for a light they crave but which is denied to them, shielded from them [...] Sometimes, in the midst of all I have been given, I watch the moths in us all. Everybody has a light which they think they cannot live without.

Alma Alexander

#9. I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

Andrea Hirata

#10. Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.

Jacques Barzun

#11. I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

Georg Baselitz

#12. Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance.

Donna Goddard

#13. Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.

Lyle Lovett

#14. All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

Graham Greene

#16. We had never eaten our own chickens but we delighted in eating their eggs. No matter how hot the summer became, they always presented us with eggs, which I thought was very generous of them, considering the heat. I'm sure I wouldn't have bothered.

Victoria Twead

#17. She was born to be free, let her run wild in her own way and you will never lose her.

Nikki Rowe

#18. Had he been naive, or overambitious? Both, probably. In life, you might be a bohemian and an adventurer, but you also sought a pattern, an arrangement to help you through, even if
even as
you kicked against it.

Julian Barnes

#19. He was infamous, even at her school. You wanted something to get you through your exams, he had it. You wanted a fake license, he could get it. You wanted something to hurt you, he was it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

Barack Obama

#21. You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Billy West

#22. The Bohemian who tires of life, who gives up by retirement into insamity or suicide, is not necessarily one who had failed in what he wants to express.

Emily Hahn

#23. I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#24. Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it.

Richard Hugo

#25. Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me

Albert Einstein

#26. In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#27. In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life.

Norman Mailer

#28. If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.

Christopher Hitchens