Andre Breton Quotes

I don't make any rules.

The reason that we have rules is so that sometimes they can be suspended.

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

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

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

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

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

I always liked situations where there were very clear rules of what to do.

No group in any sector can go anywhere without rules.

I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

I have rules for everything.

I don't like things set in stone.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there'... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.

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

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.