Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Arthur Cravan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Swiss poet Arthur Cravan.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Arthur Cravan

Arthur Cravan was a Swiss writer, poet, artist and boxer. He was the second son of Otho Holland Lloyd and Hélène Clara St. Clair. His brother Otho Lloyd was a painter and photographer married to the Russian émigré artist Olga Sacharoff. His father's sister, Constance Mary Lloyd, was married to Irish poet Oscar Wilde. He changed his name to Cravan in 1912 in honour of his fiancée Renée Bouchet, who was born in the small village of Cravans in the department of Charente-Maritime in western France.

Swiss - Poet | May 22, 1887 - 1918
Every great artist has the sense of provocation. — © Arthur Cravan
Every great artist has the sense of provocation.
I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.
Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.
Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.
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