Bohemian Quotes · Page 2

“Sorry, my dear, one mustn't be bohemian!”

— W.H. Auden

The idea that I had a bohemian childhood is laughable.

— Joseph Fiennes

“She's a dark-eyed, red flame, bohemian hurricane.”

— Melody Lee

“True friends don't come with conditions.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

I like kind of the rugged bohemian kind of look.

— Claudia Kim

“There is no such thing as loving a child too much.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“I was gypsy when gypsy wasn't cool.”

— Mishi McCoy

My mother had a cotillion, but she wanted to be bohemian.

— Sarah Paulson

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

— Johan Lindeberg

Channel a bohemian state of mind with an effortless dress paired with a must have embroidered moto jacket.

— Lubov Azria

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime.

— Vonda Shepard

“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture.

— Donovan

My parents had lots of parties. They were hopelessly bohemian. They were just 18 when they had me.

— Noel Fielding

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

— Jane Fonda

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time — it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine.

— Richard M. Nixon

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all…

— Brigitte Bardot

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the…

— John Gierach

I spent five years in Dublin as a stand-up, living on pea sandwiches. But at times I quite enjoyed the bohemian penniless…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans…

— Brad Holland

Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything,…

— Marcel Duchamp

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

“Don't tell a girl with fire in her veins and hurricane bones what she should and shouldn't do. In the blink of…

— Melody Lee

“Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting…

— Aaron Lauritsen

A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's…

— Kelly Macdonald

But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which…

— Richard M. Nixon

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I…

— Edmund White

Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in…

— Bent Larsen

No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental.…

— Margo Jefferson

My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend…

— George Grosz

Fandango was around before the Internet. Fandango is a Spanish-American dance. It's a lively tempo dance. It's almost like the tango. That's…

— DJ Quik

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!'…

— David Mitchell

“I am care free by nature but that doesn't mean that I am careless or that I care less. I simply pass…

— Mishi McCoy

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

— Frances Bean Cobain

I become obsessed with one thing or one look, a Bohemian look for instance, and then I wear that for a while.

— Odeya Rush

I'm curious about the mix of the effortless bohemian thing with the very modern.

— Matthew Williamson

“In life, like art, there has to be an essential sense of weirdness.”

— Jo Brunini

The thing that makes Lexington so interesting is that it's a mash-up between blue blood and bohemian.

— Jim Gray

I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.

— Erno Rubik

My personal experience has been that in my free bohemian subculture, I'm not unique.

— Robert Christgau