Quentin Crisp on Philosophy
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Quentin Crisp, catalogued under Philosophy, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Quentin Crisp, entry #143359: "Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it."
Attributed to Quentin Crisp, entry #153053: "Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man."
4 Quotes by Quentin Crisp on Philosophy
"Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it."
"Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man."
"If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being."
"You'll never be wanted," said, and thrust at me a smaller piece of paper. This described me as being incapable of being graded in grades A, B, etc., because I suffered from sexual perversion. When the story of my disgrace became one of the contemporary fables of Chelsea, a certain Miss Marshall said, "I don't much care for the expression 'suffering from.' Shouldn't it be 'glorying in'?"