Convention Quotes

“Property is a social convention, an agreement about rights. It is not a thing.”

“One should not be a gentleman in art.”

“The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.”

“The 'morally correct' is too often a polite name for the stupidly conventional.”

“Beauty is a convention, a currency, and I have no use for it.”

“Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.”

“The history of the creative process is a history of resistance to convention.”

“I enjoy going to conventions and meeting the people who have supported my career.”

“We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of convention.”

“Must a song always be a song!?”

“Most people’s minds are tuned to the concert-hall key.”

“I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise routine, monotony, mediocrity, and submission.”

“Christ! What are patterns for?”

“The best things in life are really inappropriate.”

“Art has no business to be respectable.”

“The public is unable to experience anything but the conventional.”