The Bohemians Quotes

“Live every day as if you might be struck blind--that was the rule I made for myself now. In those first few days after the quarantine was lifted, we went around marveling at the smallest things, as if the Spanish flu had rendered us all blind & we'd suddenly gained our sight again. Every detail seemed suddenly as sharp as if seen for the first time. Life returned to SF, and it had never been more precious.”
― Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians

“There are moments in life when time seems to stand still. This was one. All you can do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.”
― Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians

“When I was younger, I wanted to walk in the world as if I were invisible, but slowly I came to realize you couldn’t really see people if you’re bent on hiding all the time. You had to show people who you were if you hoped they’d show you something of themselves. You had to let yourself be seen.”
― Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians

“Alma Lavenson”
― Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians

“Modotti, Louise Dahl, Margrethe Mather, and Hansel Mieth.”
― Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians

“The belief that you could create yourself -- it was the most American part of us both, Caroline and me. Were we running from the past or toward the future? And what would it mean to arrive?”
― Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians

“Surely you’d agree it’s as necessary for an artist to show people the evidence of life’s beauty as it is to give them a document of its ugliness and despair?”
― Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians

“Then one day everything changed. I was walking in my old mackintosh past the City of Paris after work, when I caught my reflection in the store window. There it was, plain as day: That coat made me invisible. I’d worn it for years on my walks through New York, walks on which I’d learned the pleasure of solitude and begun to shed my fear of being out alone in the city. A few weeks before, I’d nearly thrown it away outside the ferry building, but looking at myself now, I saw its power was undiminished; if anything, it was stronger”
― Jasmin Darznik, The Bohemians