#eccentricity

If Miss Malin had now been given the choice of returning to her former reasonable state, and had been capable of realizing the meaning of the offer, she might have declined it on the ground that you have in reality more fun out of life when a little off your head. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#fun #life #life

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#opinion #philosophy #society #age

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artist #artists #artists-life #arts-and-humanities #artsy

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#dad #each #eccentricity #felt #grew

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. ↗

— Martin Short

#concert #criticized #eccentricity #master #mother

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artist #artistic #artists #artsy #creative-people

My eccentricity became direction. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#direction #eccentricity

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#amount #been #character #contained #courage