Edward Albee

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.

American Dramatist

Dan Hill

Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.

Canadian Musician

David Del Tredici

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

American Composer

Matthew Shipp

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

American Musician

Marcus Buckingham

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

British Author

Larry Flynt

I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

American Publisher

Lee Daniels

I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.

American Actor

Garry Trudeau

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

American Cartoonist

Salman Rushdie

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

Indian Novelist

Rod Lurie

I really like iconoclastic casting. I really do.

Israeli Director

Used when someone questions widely accepted ideas or practices.

Challenging Norms

May evoke disagreement or shock as it challenges revered concepts.

Expect Disagreement

Often used in scholarly contexts where ideas are critically examined.

Academic Tone

Historically refers to the literal destruction of religious symbols.

Literal Image Breaking

Common in discussions about religious practices and historical events.

Religious Context

Describes artists or works that reject established styles or traditions.

Artistic Rebellion

Can imply creativity or innovation that goes against the mainstream.

Creative Nonconformity

Implies a modern, often bold approach to art and expression.

Modern and Bold

 and that's very -- the basic reason I'm talking to you here because I got shot. Well, when I started working with my own work, I decided that I shouldn't do images. You know, I became -- I took this very iconoclastic approach.

Iconoclastic