Quotes About Boundary-pushing

I really like incorporating noise music into pop.

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

It is part of my job description to be offensive.

Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time, trends, fads, hypes, the rise and fall of whole genres eclectic as walking Christmas trees, constituting a genre unto itself: truly, a musical Monolith if ever there was one.

I feel like people either love me or hate me, which is good, because that was the point of what I do. The point of M.I.A. is to be - it's either to be loved or hated. At least you evoke that much of a strong opinion about music.

I want to always do things that are very current and pushing the boundaries of the way we create art.

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

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art."

Art is what you get away with

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.

I dragged my balls across your mother's memorial cake, from cherry to cherry, and to each of the candles.

I've always been a fan of Andy Kaufman.

I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

I want to be the guy out there on the edge.

I think people like watching edgy things.

I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

I don't think we're going to break the law in terms of what you can or can't do on TV. We're looking to do something edgy, different, and special.

We want to push it. We feel we are the envelope.

I would like to do something a little bit more edgy.

Farley once stuck his ass out the window of the seventeenth floor at 30 Rock and took a shit. Another time, in front of twenty or twenty-five people in a very crowded writers' room—mixed company, women, men—Farley came in naked. He has his dick tucked between his legs and he was doing Jame Gumb from Silence of the Lambs. He took a golf club and shoved it about three inches up his ass, then pulled the golf club out and started licking it.