Matt Groening Quotes

I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different things.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.

I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze time.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I always have to be me.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

I'd hate it if everyone in the world liked me, my music and what I wore. It'd make it boring, and I wouldn't have anything to work towards. It's not to everyone's taste, but I can only be me.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.

I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

My philosophy is to be me.

For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.