Bryant H. McGill Quotes

I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

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

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.

You can only make a difference by being different.

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

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

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

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