I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.
Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.
Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.
You have to take me for me. I am who I am.
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
I am not strange. I am just not normal.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
No one can transcend their own individuality.