Martin Parr Quotes

I get a kick out of not being ideal. I think it's awesome. That's entirely the point. And I think my creator is quite a character for letting that be.

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'

Be the weirdest little weird in all Weird Town.

I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.

I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.

I'm always different. I'm an eccentric man.

The weirder the better for me.

I appreciate people who sway to the beat of their own tambourine, like Iris Apfel and Helena Bonham Carter.

I love people who have distinctive, unique personalities who are not in assembly lines and have something to offer.

I'm unique. I'm myself. I'm funny.

Timeless and unclassifiable - that's the goal. My oddness is the pursuit of this above all else.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

I really think that being yourself, being original, being outside the box is starting to be appealing to people.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

I like things that are unique and extreme.

I was a kid with a lot of different, strange interests - kind of crazy.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.

I have always idolized eccentric people.