Quotes About Rebellion

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school.

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

Football is the priority, even more than school. Art is frowned upon. I had to sneak music in.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

All art is based on non-conformity.

It was easy to leave the art world after I found out that it was just another corporation. When they told me I had to create the same thing, I rebelled.

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.