Quotes About Unconventional

Japanese medical people are traditionally very strange and creepily poetic.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom. Unless institutions maintain contrarian positions through difficult times, the resulting damage of buying high and selling low imposes severe financial and reputational costs on the institution.

all real progress in social science has been rooted in the courage to say things that are, in the final analysis, slightly ridiculous:

He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.

CONFUSE the Google Street View car by running alongside it dressed as a house.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Crazy and insane are words used throughout history to describe people and ideas that are simply different.

Real freedom - where I could think the unthinkable and say the unstable and I give a damn what people made of it. How many allow themselves that priceless gift? And get it is there for the taking whenever they choose.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.

God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.

I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.

I wanted to stand on the kind of holy ground that wasn't curated by church professionals, where a burning bush could blaze forth in defiance of safety regulations and outside of regular office hours.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with Shooting Fish. Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

I think all good art is outsider art.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.