“Learn all the rules… then break them.”

— Lea DeLaria

Lea's Book of Rules for the World (May 2000) Rule # 10

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American actress and singer 1958

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).

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”

Robert Bringhurst The Elements of Typographic Style

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“As in any discipline, to become good you need first to learn the rules. To become great, you need to break them.”

Tim Hurson (1946) Creativity theorist, author and speaker

Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking

“Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.”

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer

“Dragonfly” (p. 201)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)

“love means breaking all the rules”

Lori Foster (1958) American writer

Source: Simon Says

“Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the necessity of those rules, and break them in keeping with the spirit rather than the letter of the law.”

Jordan Peterson book Beyond Order

Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 85

“The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

Source: Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law

“They (i. e., the Olympian gods) operate on moral principles. You have to break a promise to them, or break a rule, for them to get power over you.”

John C. Wright (1961) American novelist and technical writer

Victor commented darkly, “That explains why religions have rules no one can follow. If everyone is a sinner, by definition, everyone is under their power.”
Source: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 9, “Wings” (p. 142)

“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
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