Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

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

You borrow from the greats, and you make your own path without losing the core of who you are.

Your life is your art.

Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.

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.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

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.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

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

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

Living courageously in your uniqueness is really important: just being completely yourself. I know that sounds really cliche, but just do what you want to do.

Some people play it safe in the world of drag - I'm guilty of it myself, sometimes - but I hope to always be a voice that encourages people to buck trends, follow their instincts, and do good in the world.

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself.

I have to be ahead of myself so I don't just fit into the realm of everybody who sounds like me.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

Originality is being different from oneself, not others.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

You are the artist and the art.

he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

I'm still doing me. I try to come up with different concept for my shows, you gotta keep the people interested, but I'm still me.

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.