Quotes About Individuality

We are all viewing the world through our own private lenses.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

None of it matters, these steps to look completely different, to be completely different. She's still her. She'll always be her.

If a white girl tries to tell you what your brown skin can and cannot wear for makeup, just remember the smile of an axolotl.

Aren't we the ones who say, "My"? We exist from Birth till we Die. Aren't we the ego, 'I'? Let's find out "Who am I?"

We are not the Bodies that we Wear. We are the ones that Wear the Body.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

Because a rebel is just a guy who doesn't have the good sense to go the same way the crowd is going, and the composure to act like that was his idea all along.

But you never know what you can create if you put your heart into it unreservedly, and never let anyone else make you feel as if you don't belong. Because a rebel is just a guy who doesn't have the good sense to go the same way the crowd is going, and the composure to act like that was his idea all along.

I admit that I keep in my mind a romantic notion of an essential Blackness—and I use it as armor.

Tattooing is definitely an art form," Kenzo said. "I do agree with you about that, and I've recently learned to appreciate the beauty of the art tattoo. But tell me, speaking not as a collector but strictly as a physician and a rational man, don't you think it's stupid to undergo so much pain and expend so much energy on self-mutilation? I mean, surely no one with an iota of common sense would ever do such a thing.

But now, as I recall my past works in order to write about them, the people from the past whom I had at last forgotten come to life again in my head, clamoring for attention, each one asserting his own individuality. I am at a loss. Each one is to me like a child of my own that I gave birth to and raised.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

In other words, I did not—and still don't—have a completely personal, distinctive, way of looking at things.

To develop a personal vision isn't easy. But when I was a young man, this insufficiency caused me not only dissatisfaction but uneasiness. I felt I had to fashion my own way of seeing, and I became more impatient. Every exhibition I went to seemed to prove to me that every painter in Japan had his own personal style and his own personal vision. I became more and more irritated with myself.

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189]

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT?

In other words, take "myself," subtract "movies" and the result is "zero.

Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!

A zebra does not change its spots.

Like every part of his life was about cultivating an identity. He couldn't just be normal.

There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?

The promotion of 'average' individual causes a general levelling down.