Quotes About Unconventionality

I assume they're still there, ostriching themselves and eating paint chips, or whatever it is they do in their spare time. I

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three per day, but that is not a good way to live.

You didn't come into this life to be anyone else. You are here to stand out. To express yourself as only you can.

But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.

If you are not willing to be a little crazy, go about your business.

The New Yorker will not be edited for the old lady from Dubuque.

So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, "People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange.

This is the advantage to being an eccentric. Everyone expects you to be eccentric." Emerson

Miami's the kind of place where you can wear a gold lamé bikini and a python cowboy hat and nobody will look at you twice

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.

I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.

In any art, unpredictability is the delightful factor.

I like things to be unpredictable.

I think it's good to be unpredictable.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.

I want to be a living work of art.

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.