Quotes About Thought-provoking

You look at Richard Pryor and Robert Klein and George Carlin and Richard Lewis - those guys were so smart, they were the thinking-man stand-ups.

I like movies that don't fit in a category. Like, 'Get Out' - that was one of my favorite movies in a long time, and what is that?

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

I'm interested in telling stories about characters that are interesting and who are challenging in some way, one that will make you think about them afterwards.

That's the kind of work I like to do: challenging work that has a message.

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.

I think the films that work the best are the ones that seem to be about one thing but then, under the surface, bubbling away, are lots more important questions that you're not really aware of, and when you leave the cinema, your mind is ablaze with different thoughts!

Por qué habría de querer yo una fotografía de tal desastre? Me acerque un poco más a ella y vi mi cabeza, mi cabeza, allí dentro, tras la ventana de la cocina. Me hizo pensar, al verme a mí mismo de ese modo. Lo digo en serio: es algo que le hace pensar a uno.

Por qué habría de querer yo una fotografía de tal desastre? Me acerqué un poco más a ella y vi mi cabeza, mi cabeza, allí dentro, tras la ventana de la cocina. Me hizo pensar, el verme a mí mismo de ese modo. Lo digo en serio: es algo que le hace pensar a uno.

The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.

You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.

Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching.

The greatest thinker we can ever think of is Jesus Christ. He knew how to make His contenders ponder in awe

The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.

oh, it's a penis. They're all masturbating. At high speed, it seems.

The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

The message of great art is to disturb.

They say Im demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes.

I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Perhaps in the end, it should be left alone as a reminder that life isn't perfect, but even with it's imperfections it is worthwhile and enjoyable. Wouldn't it be great if more people thought that?