Quotes About Unconventionality

If you make a strange, eccentric record - like the Velvet Underground's 'White Light/White Heat' - it takes on its own mood because it's less about a shrewd marketing plan; it's more about an individual emotion.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Every major city has a section like this one. If a piebald dwarf with advanced leprosy wants to have sex with a kangaroo and a teenage choir, he'll find his way here and get a room. When he's done, he might take the whole gang next door for a cup of Cuban coffee and a medianoche sandwich. Nobody would care, as long as he tipped.

At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school. In her answers in class, she often spoke of sea horses and stars, but she did not know what a football was...

I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don't live in decent society.

Eccentricities, of which I know I have many, do not hold universal sexual and romantic lure. I understand that.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

You must detach yourself from the stereotypical life to live an effective one

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Nobody ever told me, 'Art is this.' This was good luck in a way because I would have had to spend half of my life forgetting everything that I had been told, which is what happens with most students in schools of fine arts.

The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

She has one green eye and one brown one. Have

perfect is boring , human is beautiful

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have real beauty.

Beauty is not generic. Quite often, the thing that makes you memorable is the thing that makes you different.

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.

Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.

A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

Normal is the enemy of interesting.

When the going get's weird, the weird turn pro.

People are pretty fucking weird, if you haven't noticed.

In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole.