Quotes About Nonconformity

Humans may not have begun their history in a state of primordial innocence, but they do appear to have begun it with a self-conscious aversion to being told what to do.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that's what it's become, of being different.

Crazy and insane are words used throughout history to describe people and ideas that are simply different.

Those who are different, also have a tendency to think differently.

Balder is not too keen on people who wear ties and work from nine to five. He prefers obsessive idiots who are glued to their computers all night long,

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

If you want to be loathsome to God, just run with the herd.

My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two times two is four are not to my liking?

Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

I wanted to stand on the kind of holy ground that wasn't curated by church professionals, where a burning bush could blaze forth in defiance of safety regulations and outside of regular office hours.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

Don't think you have to be good because you're the only one left. Be as bad as you like.

I'm not very good at being a wife because I break all the rules.

I think all good art is outsider art.