Quotes About Individuality

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

Do we dare to be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? That is that question that counts.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.

I am who Iam, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

luego. No podía ser un chino en general, tenía que ser un chino de Sinaloa, un local de Mexicali, o uno de la calle Dolores en el df. Voy a añadir eso la próxima vez que lo cuente —dijo Macario.

Se llamaba Antonio López Pérez, aunque le gustaba que oficialmente se le conociera como Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebr

I don't want to leave you alone. I want you to get mad.[…]You've got to say 'I'm a human being, god dammit! My life has value!

Ma, I'm gonna stay home and watch Sid Caesar. THE MOTHER You gonna die without a son. MARTY So I'll die without a son. THE MOTHER Put on your blue suit... MARTY Blue suit, gray suit, I'm still a fat little man. A fat little ugly man.

A name is a marker of identity but there are markers we cannot change, like the color of our bodies.

Just be who you want to be not what others want to see

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone.

But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone. She'd learned that the hard way. She

had hoped. "Can you tell us how to make a man fall in love with us?" Kit's expression turned wary. "I don't think so. No one could. It is different for each person." "Is it?" Belle asked in an innocent tone. "'Yet there are some things that seem to be commonly attractive to all

There is more to me than my boobs and my boyfriends.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

An artist has to stick true to their own beliefs and be a pioneer. They're not necessarily pleasing a studio or a government or anybody else but just being honest and raw and expressing themselves in a beautiful way. That's not always what people want to hear or expect to see.