Quotes About Provocative

Sometimes my jokes are meant to be tasteless.

I say off-the-wall things to get a response.

I do say things in a way that is going to elicit a response from people.

I want stories where you either hate it or love it. I want to do movies like that, where it's not show and tell, where it's not, 'This is it, and now you reveal the ending, and that's that.'

Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.

I think there's very little interesting in art that is not transgressive in some way. And I don't think that's a very revolutionary thing to say.

My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable.

I've become saucy.

I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.

We were not folk-rock. We would scare people.

I had never done anything like I had done in 'Masters of Sex.' Those are some very adventurous scenes.

I am a Scorpio so I am a little bit crazy.

You put on eyeliner, and people start screaming at you. How strange, and how marvellous.

I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.

I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

I think 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time. And it was made by a monster of a man.

I completely understand why people are attracted to Palin. First: Whatever 'it' is, she has 'it.' And second: She makes all the right people crazy. It's not hard to look around at Palin-haters, frothing at the mouth about 'how stupid' she is, and think, 'I'm sure as hell not with them. Whatever they are, I'm on the other team.'

On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

Interestingly, although the 'Books of Blood' were greeted with cries of righteous horror - and smirks - I didn't think of them as being particularly excessive. God knows what I did think was excessive at the time, but I didn't think they were.

I like risky parts - abrasive characters the audience won't necessarily like.

I love it when people send me body parts.