"We're artists too, but we do a good…" — Roberto Bolano

"We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?"

— Roberto Bolano

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62 Quotes by Roberto Bolano

Roberto Bolano has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is…
The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive,…
Literature + Illness = Illness
But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track…
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum.…
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over,…
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the…
Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some…
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book…
I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the…
I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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