"Only when you know the rules backwards and forward should you proceed to break them."

Does anyone know where this quote is from? I heard it on NPR's Selected Shorts, in a reading of “Stump Louie” by Lisa Halliday, where it's attributed to Michealgelo, but wikiquote doesn't agree and google doesn't help. Incidentally, the story is set in Albany. I hadn't even noticed that when I heard it on the radio.