Quotes About Rebellion

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up!

I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

Nothing seems to me more tragic than the pressures we put on artists to do what we think we'll like, and our refusal to prize what is most ornery and special about them.

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.

And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II.

I've made sacrifices. I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude

I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.

The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any - but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.

Fuck yr heroes, I'm saving myself.

Bloody humans!' I grumbled, kicking a postbox in anger. 'Bloody Vampires! We should all be turtles or something!

I say to hell with Generals, Princes and the rest. Life is too short. I want to live, fight, love, die. Not waste my time studying.

I'd always been stubborn. I admired Mr. Crepsley more than he knew, but hated the idea of looking like a pushover who did everything he was told. Sometimes I disobeyed the vampire just so he wouldn't think I was paying attention to what he said!

This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.

I know a man who once stole a Ferris-wheel

The man whose name I had not caught was saying: "Comes the revolution and we'll all be lined up against the wall—first thing." He seemed to think it was a good idea.

You still know that boy. He was very angry at fourteen, fifteen, in summer and winter, at home or in the world. So angry that his face contorted in photos. The camera was a question and his face did not know the answer.

They started a great fire in the middle of the market, and from this fire they took burning logs and torches, and these they threw onto the roofs of most of the homes within a one-mile radius. The few men who resisted were shot. This was effectively the end of any kind of life in Marial Bai for some time. Again, the rebels for whom this was retribution were nowhere to be found.