Andre Breton Quotes

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

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

I really rebel against authority.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

I was rebellious.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

I cannot stand authority.

In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

I was a little rebellious growing up.