Quotes About Nonconformity

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

Because a rebel is just a guy who doesn't have the good sense to go the same way the crowd is going, and the composure to act like that was his idea all along.

But you never know what you can create if you put your heart into it unreservedly, and never let anyone else make you feel as if you don't belong. Because a rebel is just a guy who doesn't have the good sense to go the same way the crowd is going, and the composure to act like that was his idea all along.

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

Here my advice to young gay person or actor its to be yourself and not to be pressured into what other people want you to be

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

I'm afraid you'll have to take up art. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.

I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules.

I love people who have distinctive, unique personalities who are not in assembly lines and have something to offer.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

People often say, 'You don't go to fashion shows? What kind of photographer are you? What the hell is the wrong with you, man?' But that's what I need in order to be who I am.

I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.

I was such a bizarre conundrum of everything that makes you worry about a child. I was a bad student. I got picked on a lot. I loved horror movies.

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

I'm not always the best at picking out what goes together. I always want to be presentable, but more than that, I want to be different. I've never just wanted to follow the crowd. I think that goes back to when I was a boy. If everyone was doing one thing, I'd do something different.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

I have three pieces of advice I want you to remember: Don't ever grow up. Don't become a bore. Don't let The Man get to you.