Unconventional Thinker Quotes

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.

Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.