Shepard Fairey Quotes

I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I'm somebody who doesn't believe in conforming to maybe whatever is on the radio.

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

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don't feel I should live my life in the way other people want me to. If they have a problem with my films, I can rip off their films, be it comedy or their family dramas, which are low on content and have over-theatrical acting.

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

I always do things that are not the flavour of the season. And that's why people like me.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.