Andrew Wyeth Quotes

By all means break the rules.

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

You are remembered for the rules you break.

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

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

I want to break standards.

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."

I love challenging the status quo.

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

I like rules that are broken.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

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

Everything for me was to beat the system, the way I played was to beat the system.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

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

Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?

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

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why