“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
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.
“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
“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
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Source: A Thousand Mornings
“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares?”
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 5: Beast from Water
Context: "The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares?"
Ralph summoned his wits.
"Because the rules are the only thing we've got!"
But Jack was shouting against him.
"Bollocks to the rules! We're strong — we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in and beat and beat and beat —!"