Quotes About Individuality

What you have to do is break all the rules.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Seek freedom from the conformity of styles

Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.