Quotes About Individuality

The thing about fashion, my dears, is that you don't need to follow it, no matter what they say.

Do whatever you want to do. Pursue whatever fascinates you and brings you to life. Create whatever you want to create—and let it be stupendously imperfect, because it's exceedingly likely that nobody will even notice. And that's awesome.

as Walt Whitman once wrote, stand 'apart from the pulling and hauling…amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary… both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it all.

Los ingredientes de la oscuridad y los de la luz están presentes en todos nosotros y depende del individuo (o de la familia, de la sociedad) decidir qué va a potenciar: sus virtudes o su malevolencia. La locura de este planeta procede, en gran parte, de la incapacidad humana para alcanzar un equilibrio personal virtuoso. La demencia (colectiva e individual) es la consecuencia.

There is something magnificent about encouraging someone to step forward into his own self-respect at last—especially when it comes to creating something brave and new.

it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection

Let people have their opinions. More than that—let people be in love with their opinions, just as you and I are in love with ours. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people's judgments about you are none of your business.

I can't be the only ancient woman still tottering around New York City, absolutely refusing to abandon either her life or her real estate.

I had actively participated in every moment of the creation of this life–so why did I feel like none of it resembled me?

Are you considering becoming a creative person? Too late, you already are one.

We can't just follow Paris for the sake of Paris! As long as I live, I shall never forget those words. That speech was certainly more stirring to me than anything Churchill had ever said.

You are not required to save the world with your creativity. Your art not only doesn't have to be original, in other words; it also doesn't have to be important.

Live your life as you wish, my peach, but don't let it bitch up the bloody show.

You do not need anyone's permission to live a creative life

Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself.

The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying. We are all the chosen few.

My truth is not a condemnation of yours.

Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me. Just say what you want to say, then, and say it with all your heart. Share whatever you are driven to share. If it's authentic enough, believe me—it will feel original.

The Bhagavad Gita--the ancient Indian yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.

So many girls get married for that same reason. Find something else to do with yourself, I say. Gosh, ladies, take up a hobby!

did believe that my behavior made me unusual—because it didn't seem to match the behavior of other women—but I didn't believe that it made me bad.

The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying

We're all related, after all, so there's going to be some repetition of creative instinct. Everything reminds us of something. But once you put your own expression and passion behind an idea, that idea becomes yours.

Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.