Quotes About Individuality

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

I feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

I don't think when you work you have to please everybody - you make a choice. It's not like everybody who is in front of you has to become your best friend.

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

You can't just say, "I'm gonna have style." You have to work at it. It's intuitive; some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.