Quotes About Provocative

Camp is art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken altogether seriously because it is 'too much.

Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.

When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

Works of art should be stimulating. They should wake people up rather than acting like a sedative.

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.

Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.

Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.

Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.