#bohemia

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#around #art #artists #bohemian #could

The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world. ↗

— Sarah Thornton

#bohemian #definition #stereotype #art

Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians. ↗

— Evan Davis

#art #attracting #bars #bohemian #buzz

There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#australia #bohemia #europe #i #little

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#existence #felt #getting #i #leading

Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country. ↗

— Brad Holland

#artist #blue #blue jeans #bohemian #country

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#appalling #bohemian #bought #existence #guitars

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#bohemian #certain #elements #fault #found

My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved. ↗

— Virginia Nicholson

#living #experience