4 Quentin Crisp Quotes on Art

Quentin Crisp quotes on art

14. I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

24. Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

38. I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

39. [To read a novel or see a play was to drink life through a straw - to smoke it through a filter-tip. If we were not afraid of blackening our teeth or riddling our lungs with cancer - if we were a dauntless race of men with strong digestions - we would be able to devour life without the aid of these over-civilized devices.