Lily Cole Quotes

I love challenging the status quo.

I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

As a creator, I always want to betray fans' expectations.

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium.

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'

The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do it with no fear, people are listening.

If you look at things historically, Kanye West has really represented the battering ram against political correctness.

Provocative... I used to be defensive about it, but in the end, I realised it's exactly right. It's what we're trying to do - to provoke thought and discussion and, you know, shake people up to start thinking about things in a different way. I'm interested in messing with what they think is the norm.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

You can communicate a sad message or perplexing message through happy chords or a happy melody, and I hope to have the listener pose more questions in their life as opposed to going along with the everyday and what's being pushed on them.