Quotes About Nonconformity

Be rational' is what they tell you when you are having a sane reaction to an insane situation, and the rationale behind their conception of reason is FUCKED. Be rational. What it really means is assume your position in the status quo. Assume the position.

What are you doing tonight?' 'Sex, drugs, tattooing our arms with old syringes off the street, that kind of thing,' he said good-naturedly.

Yo escribo este manifiesto para mostrar que pueden ejecutarse juntas las acciones opuestas, en una sola y fresca respiración; yo estoy en contra de la acción; a favor de la continua contradicción, y también de la afirmación, no estoy ni a favor ni en contra y no lo explico porque odio el sentido común.

What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess that's the problem.' I don't think normal is that great.' But so many people choose it,' I reply. I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.' Well, why do we choose the hard road?

To paint and nothing more. And to paint seeking a new expression, divested of useless realism, with a method linked only to my thought—without enslaving myself or associating myself with objective reality. Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless. It is my will that takes form outside of all extrinsic schemes, without considering what the public or the critics will say.

If you can't solve a problem, it's because you're playing by the rules

Hackers are unruly. That is the essence of hacking. And it is also the essence of Americanness. It is no accident that Silicon Valley is in America, and not France, or Germany, or England, or Japan. In those countries, people color inside the lines.

I don't tweet or blog or order pizza with arugula on top. You won't find my mug on Facebook or Instagram. I don't have a life coach, an aroma therapist, or a manicurist, and I sure as hell don't do Pilates.

You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take.

They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.

I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.

I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's the art kids and the nerds and the kids who grow up to be the most interesting creative people.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

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

In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.