Nicky Oppenheimer Quotes

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

I was no good at anything else at school. But I was good at one thing, which was creativity.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

I just don't conform very well.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I am an artsy girl. It's no secret that I am artsy, you know.

I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

What I'm good at is making art.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the artistic form manifests itself in different ways. When I was younger, I used to draw murals for people.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

What Hollywood truly wants is for people to be themselves. I think what it's designed for is to kind of turn people into something and just make them saleable. But what it really stands for, what it really loves, are people who are unafraid to be themselves, and as you can see, these are people who are excelling in their careers.

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

Everyone has their thing, and I was the weird, artsy kid.