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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.
~ Amiri Baraka
I personally always hated Pop art.
~ Peggy Guggenheim
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.
~ Pablo Picasso
Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.
~ Georg Baselitz
Avant-garde is French for bullshit
~ John Lennon
I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.
~ Timothy Findley
In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.
~ Helmut Newton
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.
~ D. H. Lawrence
This is the golden age of grotesque.
~ Marilyn Manson
Hey ugly folks, go get some cyanide and die.
~ Frank Zappa
I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.
~ Ed Sheeran
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
~ Jerry Saltz
Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.
~ Mojo Nixon
I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
~ Patti Smith
A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.
~ Christy Leigh Stewart
And before any Christian readers get all offended - relax. I'm not saying that I'm the new Jesus. I'm just saying there's a very good chance that I might be.
~ Danny Wallace
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
~ Dashiell Hammett
I'm not saying all the women were hot. Some of them, if they fell overboard, they'd be harpooned by Japs.
~ Dave Barry
Under Florida's stand your ground law, it is legal to shoot anybody for any reason as long as you are standing on the ground.
~ Dave Barry
great big huge titties
~ David Foster Wallace
Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.
~ Christopher Moore
I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.
~ Christopher Moore