Quotes About Unconventional

God's love is not cautious, not wise, not sensible, and not remotely conservative. In fact, loving another person the way God loves them is the greatest adventure we can have.

It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste. It is the essence of art that it shatter accepted patterns, advance into unknown territory, challenge the existing order. Art is highly explosive. To be worth its salt it must have in that salt a fair sprinkling of gunpowder.

The only interesting ideas are heresies.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilization are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois.

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own

I gravitate to the world's outcasts," he explained in another email. "Prostitutes, thieves, the handicapped, the enormously ugly or deformed … For some reason I have always been fascinated by these subcultures.

a weird movie.

Feature for feature, he wasn't exactly movie-star handsome. Yet he appealed to her in ways she wasn't used to.

I was starting to think of her as the "Goth Van Gogh" on a good day or "Vampira" on a bad one. She took a little getting used to.

The truth will make you odd.

He walked noisily, like a fish.

It is of no concern. I don't mind that I am not universally adored. If I wanted everyone to like me, I'd have to be kind and charming and bland and boring all the time, and what would be the fun in that?

She could not be tamed. It would be a crime to even try.

Now she was a bluestocking and a hoyden.

In other words, they were all plumb crazy.

I figured if I was eccentric looking in Indiana, people would think, 'What is he selling? Let's look in his case.'

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

I've always been indie.

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.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

I was not influenced by any artists.

'Naach' doesn't have any of the traditional, conventional ingredients of a love story.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.