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Quotes About Rebellion

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.
~ David Sedaris
Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.
~ Gunter Brus
Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.
~ John Fowles
Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.
~ Marilyn Manson
The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.
~ Susan Sontag
Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.
~ Albert Brooks
Can't wait to date a supermodel, can't wait to sue my Dad. Can't wait to wreck a Ferrari, on the way to rehab.
~ Brad Paisley
I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.
~ Damien Hirst
Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
~ David Bowie
It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.
~ Herman Melville
Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
~ John Milton
Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.
~ Lou Reed
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form.
~ Margaret Cho
Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.
~ Mojo Nixon
How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else.
~ Nicolas Cage
Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.
~ Ray Davies
This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.
~ Van Morrison
I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.
~ Wayne Coyne
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
~ Pablo Picasso
the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart
~ Charles Bukowski
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
~ Pablo Picasso
Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.
~ Unknown