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Quotes About Provocative

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
~ Leo Tolstoy
This book is something else.... It's a must read
~ Leondrei Prince
Awesome axes," Josh said. "Where did you—" "Your mom gave them to me," Janet said. "After I fucked her." "Why—" "Because she enjoyed it so much." Not
~ Lev Grossman
I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me.
~ levant oscar
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
~ Lewis B. Frumkes
I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.
~ Terry Richardson
All art is quite useless.
~ Oscar Wilde
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.
~ Sharon Salzberg
I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.
~ John Shirley
Being shocking and cruel is a commerce. It's an actual valued skill now. The thing that really annoys me, the perception of it is that it takes intelligence, and it doesn't.
~ Bobcat Goldthwait
O sea que se puede ser un buen escritor siendo un grandísimo hijo de puta. Qué...
~ Javier Cercas
It's a very long penis Johnny has, and a smooth one, smooth as ivory. She compliments him on it and he says thank you. But they have to hide it. It is too big to hide under the sheets, and it keeps getting bigger as she talks about it and touches it. It's so big that it disappears over the edge of the bed and out the window.
~ Jay McInerney
Al Mahara is to good taste what Adolf Hitler was to world peace.
~ Jay Rayner
For the record, you are a very, very good bad influence.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
A woman is beautiful only if she is naked beneath her clothes. A thought is beautiful only if it is naked beneath language. In other words, violent. Each sentence is the spark of a will to power.
~ Jean Baudrillard
May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
~ Jean Cocteau
He has. A fucking. Rothko. Over the fireplace
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.
~ Jean Rhys
I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.
~ Joyce Tenneson
I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.
~ John Waters
I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.
~ Judy Dater
I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.
~ Andres Serrano
I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.
~ Unknown
Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk