Top 39 Purist Quotes
#1. Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
Emma Goldman
#2. I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different.
Guy Laliberte
#3. When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, and I think, 'It's going to be down to some sound guy's ideas.' Contact microphones on the violins. I'm a purist, I suppose.
Jonny Greenwood
#4. I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'
Steven Heighton
#5. I'm not a purist - I like films that are narrated and films that aren't, films that are beautiful and films that are clumsy but heartfelt. Mostly, I just like a good story and good characters.
Marshall Curry
#6. I'm not one of those guys that's a purist when it comes to videogames.
Martin Starr
#7. Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites.
Jonny Lang
#8. For the sorry truth is that in this most pragmatic land, the purist is generally his own worst enemy.
Harry Stein
#9. I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.
Malcolm Gladwell
#10. I am a karaoke purist and I don't like that. I don't think it's enough for you to just be there with your friends singing. I think you need to be in front of a crowd of hostile strangers for it to truly count.
Diablo Cody
#12. Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation
Mark Linkous
#13. I enjoy doing an action scene. I'm not a purist as far as films go. If you want to do sex, great. As long as you do it well.
Keira Knightley
#14. When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#15. The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
John Ruskin
#16. My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.
Ziggy Marley
#17. You should not be too much of a purist in your way of life, for you need to be able to accept all that is foul. You should not be too clear in making distinctions in social interactions, for you need to accept everyone whether they are good or bad, wise or foolish.
Zicheng Hong
#18. I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.
George Meyer
#19. Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship.
Bill Johnson
#20. They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their early, purist stages. It is not enough to give lip service and to believe in equal pay: there has to be a conversion, from the heart. Or so they imply.
Margaret Atwood
#21. Most new trainers agonize over the perfect workout, over-train virtually everyone and are the crazy purist idiots who embarrass themselves at restaurants trying to impress everyone with how clean they eat.
Dan John
#23. I'm a purist, and I love the sport. I loved the '60s and '70s, when the fans even enjoyed the races where only four cars finished, and they were two laps apart.
Jacques Villeneuve
#24. If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control
Karen Marie Moning
#25. I do like the zombie movies quite a bit. I know there are purist zombie guys that don't like the running zombies, but I dig the infected thing. I think that's a scarier incorporation of an element into the genre.
Mark Pellegrino
#27. I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.
Eleanor Antin
#28. My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.
Marcus Brigstocke
#29. I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling chefs to dispense with spices in cooking.
Kevin Sinnott
#30. Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.
William Zinsser
#31. Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
Damien Rice
#32. I'm kind of a purist and I actually just want to be a good player, with that said though ... I probably should get a little more involved in that as that's what people are doing and making great songs out of their computer so it's kind of like, at what point does purist become arrogance?
The Rocket Summer
#33. My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S ... what singer doesn't have that dream?
Katherine Jenkins
#34. Woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.
Emma Goldman
#35. What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#37. I'm not a dogmatic, purist psychopath. There's an unfair image of me - mean, crazy, hostile. I'm really a very gentle person.
Michael Heizer
#38. I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
Anais Nin
#39. I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.
Scott Peters
