We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.
The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.
Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality.
I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.
So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.
The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.
I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
Unless a person decides that `Whatever the cost, I want just to be myself. Condemned, unaccepted, losing respectability - everything is okay but I cannot pretend anymore to be somebody else`... This decision and this declaration - this declaration of freedom, freedom from the weight of the crowd - gives birth to your natural being, to your individuality. Then you don`t need any mask. Then you can be simply yourself, just as you are. And the moment you can be just as you are, there is tremendous peace that passeth understanding.
Never follow the crowd.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.
I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.
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