Quotes About Individuality

The painting has a life of its own

Every good painter paints what he is.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

It is passing strange, what a fluid thing is one's own identity.

Io sono Phèdre nó Delaunay de Montrève, e sono unica.

Love as thou wilt. They are fools, who reckon Elua a soft god, fit only for the worship of starry-eyed lovers.

It occurred to me, trying not to hobble in my too-tight slippers, that attire was another form of concealment.

I just thought: Oh goodness, you can wear nice clothes and get your hair done and still be a feminist and a serious intellectual.

And I eat what I please. Geez, I weigh a hundred and sixty, but who cares? And Anne Ã¢â'¬â€ I sing. Christ, I sing like a fucking canary.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

You dance funny,' she said. I didn't think this was a compliment.

I might not be any good at dancing but I am a great eater.

Magda likes her because she sings songs with very powerful, positive lyrics. Nadine likes her because her music is very cool and hip. I like her because she's got long, wild curly hair a bit like mine but much lovelier and she's not a bit fat but she is much curvier than your average rock chick. So she's kind of my role model.

I'm not going to get married at all,' I said. 'It's too easy to pick the wrong person. I'm going to live all by myself and I'm going to eat all my favourite things every day and stay up as late as I like, and I shall read all day and write stories and draw pictures with no one bothering me or fussing or needing to be looked after.

Lily was strapped in her special chair. She sang, "Ur ur ur ur ur," quietly to herself.

And she will be with children who come from a real mix of places and who have moved around a bit. They're used to it. They're all . . . well, I guess they're habituated to being different. Which means they're accustomed to finding out all the things that make them the same as one another, and yet they take their individuality in their stride.

that's why I came back to art, after the war—it's a license to be a bit strange, after all; I sometimes think people expect it, so the fact that I am different doesn't matter.

Not you. Only Fräulein Donat.

They say the face tells all there is to know about a life, but I personally believe much can be deduced from the hands. There are lines and scars, bumps and calluses; indeed, the hands are both the sketch and the final work of art.

And unless you show that you are as good at everything as they are, you find that you spend virtually all your time running behind them screaming like a banshee, 'Me too, me too!

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon

What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even pretend that it is only the later things we required -- no personal, individual, induplicable quality, just pure art.