Phillip Schofield Quotes

It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

Even in a conservative society like Chennai, youngsters don't feel bound by conventions anymore.

Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled.

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

We need role models who are going to break the mold.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.

A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.

Part of the concept behind the magazine was breaking barriers. And it wasn't just a sexual thing. It was racial and doing the things that were right. And in the process, that set 'Playboy' apart.

I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'

I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.

At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

In my village, people believed that women should stay in their homes. However, I followed my heart and showed them that I'll not succumb to their regressive ideals.

All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

You've got to know the rules to break them.

To break the age-old taboos and to see girls and women use pads was a difficult task.

There will always be people saying things can't be done. And history shows that time and time again things 'couldn't be done' and they were done.

In every part of our society, rules have to be questioned and adapted.

There are certain societal laws that are just accepted, things that are arbitrary. I think the fun thing about psychotics is that they question that. It can be very freeing... like, my ego or my individuality trumps society's law.