Edith Sitwell Quotes

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

Eccentricity is originality that leads nowhere.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

Where's your will to be weird?

My eccentricity became direction.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

… there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Do the things that make perfect sense to you, [and] don't be afraid to shout it from the mountain tops just because it's outside the box or against the grain in your industry. More often than not, you're probably going to be right.

The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

I'm the last of the mad ones.

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other.

I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it zigging when others are zagging.

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.