Quotes About Individuality

People do grow up, unless stunted by some mass movement or other group sickness.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

The artist must be blind to "recognized" and "unrecognized" form, deaf to the teachings and desires of his time. His open eyes must be directed to his inner life and his ears must be constantly attuned to the voice of inner necessity.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I can't do any more than I can do, and if people don't like it that's no fault of mine.

The solitary operatic feast, the banquet for one, onanism through the ear: taking an evening out of my life to listen to Simon Boccanegra, I feel I am locked in the bathroom eating a quart of ice cream, that I have lost all my friends, that I am committing some violently antisocial act, like wearing lipstick to school.

In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream. 'What are you?' I cried to them as they drifted by. 'I am a bubble, of course' nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed. But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered, 'We are this stream', and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude.

Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.

Bareheaded. No cap. Instead of crisp whites, a peasant blouse. "You're not a nurse.

In a sea of soaking-wet goths and metal-heads, she alone was completely dry,

Free spirit" sounded way better than "drunken slack-ass.

I do not let other people define me. I am who I am, and that is an intelligent and gracious human being. And as such, I do not drop to the level of bullies and trade insult for insult.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

People are not merely the product of a zeitgeist; Shakespeare is not just an Elizabethan writer.

make-up, shiny skin, a large nose and wild brown hair.

My license plate says PMS. Nobody cuts me off.

As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you

The trick is that if you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.