Quotes About Unconventional

Come on, let's go. Crazy people do crazy things.

One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own initery, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see.

Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy.

Mais elle est ainsi, vivant en elle-même, voyant de la beauté où d'autres n'en trouvent point.

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

Art should not have to be a certain way.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

Don't be cool. Like everything.

She looked long and lean and beautiful, and she was totally unaware of her looks as she called him. She had lived in a world of extraordinary-looking people for so long, and hers was a life of the mind rather than the beauty of face and body. She never thought about it, which somehow made her even more attractive.