Quotes About Provocative

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

The films of Warhol, when they are about anything are about sucking people off. This can be high art, to people who are interested in sucking people off. But that will not liberate Black people.

You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

I personally always hated Pop art.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

I wanted to jeopardize my own image. With my image I had already produced art pieces such as videos of photographs.

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it's going to do it visually or physically, I'll take either way.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

This is the golden age of grotesque.