John Boyle O'Reilly Quotes

I've always enjoyed the bohemia of Paisley.

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

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

She was feeling her bohemian oats.

Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause.

What I love about Kanye is that he doesn't fit the mould either. He does what he feels.

I wanted to become an actor because I wanted to become a gypsy. I wanted to live the gypsy life!

My idea about the role of artists is to get people to look at things in a way that's different than the way they normally would if they are being told how to think, what to do. I think when people receive information through art, they are more open-minded.

I was never your average artist, happy to do whatever the record company told me.

Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created.

I was fortunate enough to be living in Hollywood, CA, when the underground punk rock music scene started. It was a small group of artists, misfits and weirdos, where everyone was welcomed and encouraged to express themselves.

I don't want to ever be categorized. I want to be able to hit every genre.

My parents were artists, bohemian, hanging out a lot.

I've always felt like a designer of lifestyle that has a certain spirit and bohemian quality.

Each Hank Williams has always had an independent streak.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.