Quotes About Individuality

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

There's only one of me. With you using the why in the center of your work helps me.

If the art is created with the whole person, then the work will come out whole. Education must teach, reach, and vibrate the whole person rather than merely transfer knowledge.

I deal with certain things in my work because of who I am. I make work in order to make people think.

I just was non-political and didn't see myself as a person who could push people around, make their decision, you know, and tell them how lousy their work was.

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

You are a work of art.

I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'

I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

That said, I've never thought the fact that I'm a woman was important to my work.

I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.

If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to.

I don't work with a stylist.

Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.

People need to learn how to work, learn how to support themselves. I think it's just fine to be eccentric.

I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path.

I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel reborn with each role.

Gel doesn't work in my hair because it has a life of its own.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

I think my strength in teaching and what I get a lot of good feedback on is going towards the students and asking them what they are about. It's about putting your own personality into the work.

I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.

[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.