Quotes About Individuality

Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

Each artwork requires its own design

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren't merely objects of desire.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born?

Live each moment from your own inspiration, not from your desire to look good in the eyes of others.

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.