Noel Fielding Quotes

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me.

I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.

I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

Who doesn’t want an exploding wicker chicken?

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

Check out that one at the end. He's taken the form of a footstool. Weird...but somehow I like his style." "That is a footstool.

I ordered a club sandwich, but I'm not even a member. "I like my sandwiches with three pieces of bread." "Well, so do I!" "Then let's form a club." "OK, but we need some more stipulations. Instead of cutting the sandwich once, let's cut it again. Yes, four triangles, arranged in a circle, and in the middle we will dump chips." "How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?" "I'm for 'em!" "Well, this club is formed."

I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying things shouldn't be furry. It's not right. And if I ever meet the Creator, I'm taking that one up with him." "That I'd like to see. Your one and possible only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you ask, 'Why are bats furry?'" "I will. You just wait.

To make a squirrel look less uptight, put tiny sunglasses on it.

I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?

If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.

After all, all we demanded was a right to twinkle.

Learn all the rules... then break them.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.