Quotes About Individuality

Self-creation is the highest art.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

The way I look is part of it. It sounds affected but I do see myself as a piece of living art.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

No art should be fashionable.

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.

All I owe the world is my art.

All artists are two-headed calves.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

Art is incredibly subjective. What is great art to one person isn't necessarily to another.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

All art is based on non-conformity.

It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.

I'm not interested in pop art.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.