Quotes About Provocative

Personally, I like films that make me a little bit uncomfortable because I think you're uncomfortable when something is real.

Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular - were actually moved by the work but were disturbed by the feelings it evoked, so they attacked it. Some people find the realm of my work quite uncomfortable.

I think you should never be forced to be nice as an artist. An artist has to be uncomfortable in a way. Narcissistic and uncomfortable.

I've always been attracted to comedy that was really close to the line and made people a little uncomfortable, because that's where progress comes from.

People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen.

Early on, I really liked the idea of being confrontational. I loved the idea of making songs that made people really uncomfortable.

I've definitely seen people get angry or really uncomfortable with stuff I've made in the past. And my stand-up, if you could call what I do stand-up, is quite aggressive, too.

That's what I've figured out over the years - the way I write makes people feel uncomfortable.

I really appreciate Barry Jenkins as a filmmaker and the fact that he's always wanting to push the envelope and challenge perspective and make people uncomfortable in a way that doesn't seem like it's allowed anymore.

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.

That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.

I always enjoyed being made uneasy, and I was into anything that was off-putting. I can't exactly put my finger on why, but it always seemed more exciting than those things that made you feel comfortable.

Don't be afraid to shock people or be unexpected.

'The Look of Silence' was an unforgettable, chilling documentary.

The last hundred years have been retinal; even the cubists were. The surrealists tried to free themselves, and earlier so had the dadaists, but unfortunately, these latter were nihilists and didn't produce enough to prove their point, which, by the way, they didn't have to prove - according to their theory.

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre.

No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.

I've nailed more women than I could count... at least I think they were women

"My only problem with women breastfeeding in public is they never wink back." It's kind of the perfect joke because it's a bait and switch.

I'm the last of the truly tacky women. I do trash with flash and sleaze with ease.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.