Jeff Beck Quotes

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

I'm not trying to obey the rules of radio.

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

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

I've always found ways to bend the rules.

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

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.

It's interesting to hear what somebody does when they have no interest in playing by the rules.

I kept hearing all these rules: 'You can't say that in country music.' 'You can't use that kind of beat.' I became so frustrated. It may have slingshotted me, in a rebellious way, toward doing something different.

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.'

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

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.

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 never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

I love challenging the status quo.

I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

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

I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.'

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.