Quotes About Nonconformity

To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.

Anarchy doesn't mean without rules but without rulers; without masters

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

Being normal is boring!

In a world where everyone wants black-and-white answers, Coyote finger paints in Technicolor.

At one time or another most of us at the Creek have been suspected of a degree of madness. Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity ...

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

Different is liberating. Who the hell would want to be the same as everyone else?

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

Expelled from the art institute for, among other reasons, drawing nudes as a single straight line, à la Cocteau, he was a young man of 21 well versed in "acts of a rebellion against the squares.

Yo! You're my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I'd have asked for it, Motherfucker!

He shows, however accidentally, that the devices and conventions we have learned to respond to do not necessarily solve or even do anything. More than any artist I can think of, Wiseau proves Northrop Frye's belief that all conventions are, at heart, insane.

be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment," said Emerson

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

Sane is boring.

Only dead fishes go with the flow.. I guess that make me a dead fish!

Never follow the crowd....Until and unless you're crossing the road...

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.