Quotes About Individuality

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

Seeing other people do great work is its own form of inspiration and far more powerful than borrowing their ideas.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

People must work things out for themselves. It is no good saying, "I have found a house which suits me and therefore everybody must adopt the same kind of house."

I think different people have different problems and different relations to the exhibition of their work.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.