Quotes About Individuality

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.

You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

I'm proud of the work that I've done. I don't care what people label me as.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

People work better when they are afforded to be themselves

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.

My best piece of advice I could give to all of the women and girls is really to honor and love your own uniqueness and to celebrate that and to really work hard not to try to be something you're not.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.