Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.
Edward Weston

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
Francois Rabelais

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

I like breaking the rules.
Lexa Doig

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.
Max Bill

I had always broken the rules.
Lauren Hutton

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
Harold Pinter

I like rules that are broken.
Shelby Lynne

We have to be careful about creating more rules.
Paul Parker

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Mason Cooley

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
Mason Cooley

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
Mason Cooley

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
Joseph Barbera

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.
Kim Weston

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
Suzanne Vega

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
Gary Gygax

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.
Rick Wakeman

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
Bill Walsh

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.
Gary Ackerman