Rimbaud Quotes

13 quotes by 10 authors

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass… — Eric Cantona
I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only… — Jaimy Gordon
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. — Raymond Sokolov
Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche… — Andrea Dworkin
The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor. — Leonardo DiCaprio
I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the… — Patti Smith
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau,… — Patti Smith
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging… — Patti Smith
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid,… — J. G. Ballard
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I… — Iggy Pop
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was… — J. G. Ballard
If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave… — Richard Elman
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves.… — Klaus Kinski

Who Wrote These Rimbaud Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 13 Rimbaud Quotes as follows: