Quotes About Nonconformity

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.

Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

But you're like me," he says. "An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

If you aren't normal, it's because you're tougher, saner, cooler than normal.

Why should I write what they told me to write just because they told me to write it?

Sheep follow blindly. We're not supposed to be sheep.

Just because I work there doesn't mean I have to drink all the Kool-Aid. - Veronica Knox

Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With all the madmen For I'm quite content they're all as sane As me. - All the Madmen

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

It's always time to question what has become standard and established.

Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval.

Let's not sit around and give each other hand-jobs.

The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy—the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.

The most damnable thing in the world is a servile copyist!

They're all gone. Truffaut, Resnais, Antonioni, De Sica, Kazan. At least Godard is still alive, but he always was a nonconformist

We must have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living

An outlaw outlook calls on every citizen to create, not conform; to decide what is right and wrong and act on it, not just baa along with the rest of the herd.

She needed a world without so many standards and restrictions and expectations–one more friendly to a girl who thought differently from other people.

Maaf, Bapak-Bapak. Aku adalah pemberontak dan akan selalu memberontak. Aku tidak mau didikte di hari pernikahanku.

STAY WEIRD, DON'T LET OTHERS DEFINE YOU"

To think is to differ.