Art Quote by Hedy Lamarr Download Open image “I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.” — Hedy Lamarr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Conventional Despise Enemy
A citizen sticks to conventions, does whatever is social. Artists, of course, must reject all conventions. I see no differently in reconciling the best… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
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… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad.… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better. — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art. — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share
It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in. — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win. — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more. — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared. — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
