Robert Bringhurst Quotes

By all means break the rules.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

To create is to resist; to resist is to create.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives. His truth was his only motive.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I am very into making up my own rules.

I think young writers ought to be heretical.

A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.

It's important to be unconventional.

I wanna be remembered as someone who broke all the norms.

You don't need to do things in the typical way to get a beautiful result.