#biographical

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior. ↗

— John Newton

#inspirational #inspirational

His father cultivated art and self-realisation; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinth and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humourous #art

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#book #comic #comic book #content #form

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#events #finally #held #history #information

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. ↗

— Jim Dine

#art #artist #biographical #built #passion

I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now, and the attacks are coming in thick. A lot of people are mad and jealous and bitter and I only hope they also can be heard by an expanding publishing program the size of Russia's. Because it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it HIS OWN WAY and then we'd have something to read in our old age, instead of the hesitations and cavilings of "men of letters" with blear faces who only alter words that the Angel brought them. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#age

I learned to read at a young age and I have always read voraciously. It is one of the few things, aside from getting fucked up and getting in trouble, that I have done consistently throughout my entire life. ↗

— James Frey

#age

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. ↗

— John Barton

#dramatic #inevitably #lives #poets #pull

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#comics #i #i love #love #them

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#autobiographical #myself #purely #surroundings #work