Quotes About Individuality

One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.

I work in three shades of black.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

In the end when you accept yourself for who you are and you work with what you've got, you couldn't be more beautiful because you're confident and everyone notices.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

This city, all they want us to be is ourselves. You love us how we are. We're all a work in progress as men and you still love us and I thank you so much for embracing us.

Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don't be bound by rules, don't hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else's dream.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas – and you have to work through it all.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist.

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

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.