Iris Apfel Quotes

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

There's no rules. Show me the rule book.

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

I like rules that are broken.

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

Being wild can be wearing a silly hat. Being wild can be dancing weird. Being wild can be shooting people. What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild.

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.

Remember one rule, no rule.

I don't go by the rule book

The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.

I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.

I was the only guy with any bit of anarchy left.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

I don't make any rules.