Quotes About Individuality

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...

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.

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

Sólo un solitario es capaz de estar al lado de otro sin sentir la necesidad, la obligación y el derecho, de poseerlo ni de cambiarlo.

Elena lo espera en silencio, frente a él pero de espaldas, y antes de que responda dice, mejor no me ponga un nombre, Padre, tal vez si usted o su iglesia encuentran una palabra para nombrarme, después se arroguen el derecho de decirme cómo tengo que ser, cómo tengo que vivir. O morir.

Ser un solitario es algo constitutivo, una forma de ser, algo que no suele cambiar con el paso del tiempo ni con que se llene la casa de gente.

Por qué tanta gente cree que su vida es única y yo creo que la mía es igual a la de cualquiera?

Siempre es más sencillo parecerse a los demás.

And still you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.

Perhaps Mahalia, like Paul Celan, has already lived all our lives for us. Perhaps that is the definition of genius. Hegel says, "Each man hopes and believes he is better than the world which is his, but the man who is better merely expresses this same world better than the others.

And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.

And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description. I

And you are not the guy and and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

The perfect tattoo... the one I believe we are all struggling toward... is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra.

A particular bear...sees a particular this

For it was authority that turned men suspicious and stern-faced. Authority and responsibility which made them not themselves, but a sort of corporate body that tried to think as a corporate body rather than a person.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.