Charles Bukowski Quotes

I like to play like that, with beauty and grace.

Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

I want to do every kind of role with a reasonable amount of panache. I want to be a fair combination of style and substance.

The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

Living safely is dangerous.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.

And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

Beauty is our business.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

The nude alone is well dressed

I think elegance is always going to be there.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.