Quotes About Controversy

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights, which I had.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

War is the highest form of modern art.

Should # graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that

Art is what you can get away with.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Art has an obligation to offend

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

What is art? Prostitution.

Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.

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

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.