“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”
Robert Bringhurst The Elements of Typographic Style
Source: The Elements of Typographic Style
“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”
Robert Bringhurst The Elements of Typographic Style
Source: The Elements of Typographic Style
Buddy Holly (1936–1959) American singer-songwriter
It's So Easy, written by Buddy Holly and Norman Petty (1958)
Song lyrics, Singles
“Learn all the rules… then break them.”
Lea DeLaria (1958) American actress and singer
Lea's Book of Rules for the World (May 2000) Rule # 10
“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
Marvin Bell (1937) Poet
"Thirty-two Statements About Writing Poetry" http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/400_opportunities/430_gettingpub/bell.cfm, statement # 5, The Writer's Chronicle, Commemorative Issue (Copper Canyon Press, 2002).
“Art must break the chains, all rules and formulas.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) French writer
L'Idealisme esaay in Le Chemin de Velours 1902
Other
“We weren't happy. It was a nightmare, breaking the rules and all that.”
Charlotte Rampling (1946) British actress
Everyone seemed to be having fun, but they were so taking many drugs they wouldn't know it anyway. <br class="br"> "Charlotte Rampling: In from the cold", in The Independent (25 March 2005) http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/charlotte-rampling-in-from-the-cold-529788.html.
“And if my mind breaks up
In all so many ways
I know the meaning of
The words, “I love you””
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
King of Trees
Song lyrics, Buddha and the Chocolate Box (1974)
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: A Thousand Mornings
Gottfried Feder (1883–1941) German economist and politician
Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 113