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Quotes About Bohemians

He thoroughly abhorred those bohemians who aped the ways of Paris and Hollywood, and he had nothing but disgust for all those cynical, uprooted intellectuals who knew only how to pour scorn and sarcasm on everything, together with their scribbles about modern art, which amounted to no more than the emperor's new clothes.
~ Amos Oz
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
I don't remember what we ate or drank or discussed, I remember only the long table filled with high-spirited bohemians—intellectuals, internationals, the great unwashed—and how I yearned to be one of them.
~ Beth Ann Fennelly
I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema.
~ Sean Penn
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~ Umberto Eco
She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.
~ Helen Mirren
Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.
~ Unknown
Literature, music, art, and the stage were thought to be only for bohemians, who were regarded as the unpractical estrays of life who could do nothing better than act, paint, play, and write stories.
~ Lyman Abbott