Quotes About Anonymity

If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don't do anything very strange!

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Some of us will be long forgotten before we are even dead. Most will never be remembered at all, not even by family.

I realized that the Internet could be a mask as surely as any cowl. I could assume an identity — and this time, not a second-hand version of someone else. This would be mine — my mask, my shield — my persona." 

It was good to be peaceful again, to be one's self; it was wonderful to be unknown in the crowd. (MacLennan 1945, 120)

The only moments I think of with relief are those when I sought to be nothing for anyone, when I blushed at the notion of leaving the slightest trace in the memory of a single human being...

I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there 's a pair of us—don't tell! They 'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!

I'm Nobody! Who are you?Are you—Nobody—too?Then there's a pair of us!Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know!How dreary—to be—Somebody!How public—like a Frog—To tell one's name—the livelong June—To an admiring Bog!

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was.

You ask a lot of little kids today what they want to be when they grow up and they say "I want to be famous." You ask them for what reason and they don't know or care. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for fifteen minutes.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

Anonymity is the truest heroism .

The bourgeoisie is defined as the social class which does not want to be named.

I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

It couldn't be more satisfying to work on something almost anonymously for years, then to have it received affectionately with support.

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

No one recognises me in the street.

Sometimes I have no hat, no glasses, and people don't recognise me. When I can work, chill, and no one knows who I am, this is good.

People occasionally recognise me. But they don't know who I am. I see a lot of bemused looks... They're trying to figure it out.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

If someone asked if I I'd want no one to recognise me anymore, I'd take that option, I think.

It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know who a project is by.