Quotes About Provocation

One of the things that upset me a lot, and I'm pretty open about it is people that challenge my character or challenge my commitment to my job or the game that I play.

I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave disreputably.

You know, I had grown up standing on public sidewalks, saying things that people, you know, were very provoked by and were upset by. And - but standing outside that first soldier's funeral, it was eerily quiet.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

The only way to succeed is to make people hate you. That way they remember you.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

If you poke the Russian bear with a stick ,he will respond.

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

Some stimulus is not a bad thing.

It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

I like bothering people and stirring things up.

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.

Everything that moved, I was kicking it. You can ask my mum and dad. A stone, a can, whatever.

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.