Quotes About Individuality

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm not a huge dreamer.

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

It's important for a woman to feel good in her clothes. It's OK to have curves and to work them.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

My body is a gradual work of art

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

Well you are a piece of work aren't you?

If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.