Average Plebeian

Famous quotes containing the words average and/or plebeian:

“One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“The modern picture of The Artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn’t see, to be high, live low, stay young forever—in short, to be the bohemian.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)