Quotes About Individuality

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

I became one of the stately homos of England.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

Style is not the man; it is something better. It is a dizzy, dazzling structure that he erects about himself using as building materials selected elements from his own character.

Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you go on like this life will pass you by,' I would reply, 'thank God for that, I nearly got mixed up in the beastly thing.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Then my hostess said, "Oh, Denis (as my name was before I dyed it) never plays the part of a man.

Development of character consists solely in moving towards self-sufficiency.

You first have to find who you are. Then, you have to be it like mad.

It is no longer possible to be exotic.

Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

If there were no applause and no criticism, who would you be?

You must make small steps into the air of being yourself. Find yourself in an empty landscape, build your character, and then spend the rest of your life demonstrating it.

Lord Snow says that every man may be permitted his own clichés. But this is not enough. He must invent his own clichés and then persist in them until, if other people use them, their source is instantly recognizable. Thus plagiarism shall be turned into homage.

It doesn't matter what other people think of you. What matters is what you think of yourself.

People have always imagined, or pretended to imagine, that I seek to provoke hostile attention. This is rubbish. What I want is to be accepted by other people without bevelling down my individuality to please them — because if I do that, all the attention, all the friendship, all the hospitality that I receive is really for somebody else of the same name.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.