Biographical Quotes

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
Alexander McQueen

Business, Sadness, Person

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
Robert Smithson

History, Together, Events

I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
Nile Rodgers

Writing, After, Around

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.
David Knopfler

Work, Find, Sometimes

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.
Italo Calvino

Rather, Public, Private

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
Jim Dine

Art, Passion, Another

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
Anne Seward

Good, Touch, Though

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