Quotes About Controversy

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

My art became very public.

While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

Art is what you get away with

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.