Quotes About Individuality

What thou art, that thou art.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.

Anything is OK in art if the art turns out OK.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Each creature is a unique piece of art to be respected and believed in. once we realise this, equality follows.

Don't be cool. Like everything.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.

It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human.

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

every good artist paints what he is