Quotes About Individuality

An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc." -Henri Matisse, artist (31 Dec 1869-1954)

There is not one self. There are not ten selves. There is no self. ME is only a position in equilibrium. (One among a thousand others, continually possible and always at the ready.) An average of "me's," a movement in the crowd. In the name of many, I sign this book.

He who hides his madman dies voiceless.

Base yourself on what you feel, even when you alone feel it.

Låt inte någon välja ut dina syndabockar. Det är din sak. Om den skulle sammanfalla med någon annans syndabock, dussintals eller fler, byt bock. Den kan inte vara din.

If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system I definitely want to be unplugged. But not until I'm down to a size eight.

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Helmer: First and foremost, you are a wife and mother.Nora: That I don't believe any more. I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as much as you are.

If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

And when I stood there, high over everything, and was hanging the wreath over the vane, I said to him: Hear me now, thou Mighty One! From this day forward, I will be a free builder—I too, in my sphere—just as thou in thine. I will never more build churches for thee—only homes for human beings.

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself.

Men Det maa ei hviskes stille. Sandheds Ven ei blot maa ville. Vær i Et og Alt dig Selv! Det er Sejrens Kunst, min Sjel! Som Stefanen mellem Stene maa du staae, om selv alene.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Poetry requires a manner of viewing things which is not that of the average man, but is individual to the poet; it requires, in a word, genius. One could hardly expect Milton to point this out; having genius himself he would assume that everyone else had genius; he would assume that we all had the power of looking at the world not only frankly but freshly because he would not understand any other way of looking at it.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?