Zen is...joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no…

“The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ…

— William Blake

The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be…

— Alfred Bester

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

— Charles Jencks

This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable…

— Craig Ferguson

“While photographs certainly attest to Nazi crimes, the magnitude of Nazi genocide demands that every trace of the regime be forever remembered. The various…

— Steven Heller

It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its full retinue…

— John Buchan

“I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.”

— Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

“If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.”

— Jonathan Culver

“Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefs shattered.…

— Jonathan Culver

“I don't like peoples, only persons among peoples. I've developed an allergy against being outnumbered, a price for originality.”

— Brian Spellman

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

— Paul Bourget

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.

— Hilda Doolittle

Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.

— Steve Martin

Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.

— Irving Howe

To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints…

— Warren St. John