Quotes About Nonconformity

Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)

WILLIAM BURROUGHS: I always thought a punk was someone who took it up the ass.

I have instructed myself, over and over, to keep my notebook handy at all times, but if you told me to describe myself in one word, it would be "not very good at following directions.

I'm not gonna change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know, I'm one of those people.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

I won't be listed and labeled or tabbed and tagged, said Clode. If I want a book, I'll get a book.

What did classes matter when she knew everything taught in them? Not learning made her miserable. She decided that she was the crazy one, that she was too different. It was better to stop trying. She started getting C's on her report cards.

Do not be a follower, because others like it, but be different want You like it. Jan Jansen

but then I am unlike other people I dare say.

But wrong, over and over again, wearing one ill-fitting uniform after another of the world's conventions. The only dress that ever suited her was her academic gown, but it was hardly appropriate for the daily occasions of her living.

Hans was never good at giving proper answers. He always had different answers in his head, odd answers, answers that his teachers and his parents and his grandmother and even his crazy grandfather seemed to think were wrong. But they weren't wrong answers, they were just his answers. He wondered suddenly what the Ice Maiden would do if he gave her a wrong answer. And, thinking this, he found he couldn't open his mouth at all.

This is the advantage to being an eccentric. Everyone expects you to be eccentric." Emerson

Hunh," Lula said. "You sure got a stick up your ass. When did you get so play-by-the-book?" "I've always been play-by-the-book. You're the one who doesn't play by the book." "Well, I knew it was one of us.

I kind of like being a slut," Grandma said. "It beats the heck out of being an old lady.

La maggior parte delle donne sarebbero contente di essere seguite da me». «Io non sono la maggior parte delle donne». «Come se non lo sapessi».

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

Nobody is going to just come and give you money unless you've proven yourself, especially if you're doing something that is unconventional or unorthodox and outside the way the industry thinks.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

When I did 'Baby Got Back,' I did it to be unpopular.