Conventions Quotes

458 Conventions quotes by 377 unique authors

You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable"… — Tama J. Kieves
You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have… — Lev Grossman
I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out of me. Because… — Christopher Bollen
The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon… — Bertrand Russell
When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits,… — John Berger
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right… — Robert Henri
People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention. — Roy Lichtenstein
Convention is the ruler of all. — Pindar
What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. — Eugene Delacroix
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. — Thorstein Veblen
What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in… — Maurice de Vlaminck
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to… — Christopher Lasch
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity.… — John Zachary Young
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that. — Adam Gopnik
Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal,… — David Milne
I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer.… — Christopher Nolan
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he… — Howard Gardner
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar… — Willie Pastrano
Convention and restriction release inhibition and provoke the imagination. — Walter Darby Bannard

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