Quotes About Unconventionality

Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for.

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

This is not your standard rock star's I-was-born-a-poor-genius self-deification, nor is it the opposite

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

You can't distinguish your group by doing things that are rational and believing things that are true. If you want to set yourself apart from other people you have to do things that are arbitrary and believe things that are false.

Loco es quien vive en un mundo propio

This foreign one has no fear of anything in her, although she is not beautiful as the Fourth Lady was beautiful. She does not trouble herself. She accepts as her right the interest of men. She makes no effort to win their glances. She seems to say, "This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

Art should never try to be popular.

My art flatters nobody by imitation, it courts nobody by smoothness, nobody by petitelieness without either fal-de-lal or fiddle-de-dee; how then can I hope to be popular?

You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist.... Wait, are you talking about me?

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

Some people are just different, even in the same family.

He's talking to rocks now," Kernel says. "A definite lunatic," Kirilli purrs.

A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Some people are different, and so are the rest of us.

crazy people must have an advantage when it comes to doing crazy things.

Normal people," they'd say with a shudder. "Normal people think they're happy, but that because they're too dumb to know any different. Better to be miserable and interesting, right, kiddo?

In general, I'm fascinated by women who exist outside of society's mores and values.

People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do.

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.