Quotes About Provocation

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

When people say, 'I don't get art' ... that means art is working.

War is the highest form of modern art.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

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

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

I realise the power of art that does not hang on the walls of galleries.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

Art has got nothing to do with 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.

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.