111 Quotes About Convention

Livet består av en del galskap, og en del visdom; den som bare skriver ærbødig og konvensjonelt, utelater mer enn halvparten.

Artistes, orateurs, prophètes, hommes-colosses comme Danton, hommes-enfants comme Cloots, gladiateurs et philosophes, tous allaient au même but, le progrès. Rien ne les déconcertait. La grandeur de la Convention fut de chercher la quantité de réel qui est dans ce que les hommes appellent l'impossible.

Heretic: someone who challenges the popular myths.

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.

...convention [is] the most subtle but oppressive dictator.[Edith 'Ditte' Thompson]