Art Quote by Stewart Brand

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

— Hedy Lamarr

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

— George Takei

I really do the conventions now for two reasons.

— Rene Auberjonois

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

— Steve Krug

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Jane Rule

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

— Rosamond Lehmann

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

— Freya Stark

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

— Edith Hamilton

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