Wayne McGregor Quotes

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

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

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

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

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

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

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Now I'm old... maybe I'm still an eccentric hippie. There's a wonderful freedom in the eccentricity - you can go places, you can be wacky, and you don't have to be constrained. I think that's why people are eccentric - eccentricity is a weapon... and it's great!

Where's your will to be weird?

Art is not only about angst.

I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

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

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father.' And you know what they say? 'I could never do that!'

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.