Alive Quote by R. D. Laing

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

— Jane Rule

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

— Stewart Brand

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

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”

— Steve Krug

I don't believe in convention at all. I do what I have to do to stay alive.

— Quentin Crisp

“Any form of art can only develop by means of single mutations by individual creators. If only traditional conventions are used an art will…

— Carson McCullers

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

— James Frey

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

— Hedy Lamarr

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

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

— Garry Kasparov

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

— Edith Hamilton

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without!.

— Anonymous