Quotes About Provocation

I'm going to punch words in your ear holes.

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

But to hell with them. Let's give them something to infect their waking and fire their dreams.

People are going to eat you alive over this article. And the witch even included the fact of where you're currently living." "I have an ace in the hole." "What's that?" she said curiously. "I don't give a shit.

Shoot you down. Bang! Bang! - Velvet Goldmine

David Axelrod put it well, citing how we respond to every Trumpian or Fox News provocation with righteous indignation: [2] "My advice to the Democratic nominee next year is: Don't play. … Wrestling is Mr. Trump's preferred form of combat. But beating him will require jiu-jitsu, a different style of battle typically defined as the art of manipulating an opponent's force against himself…." Absolutely. Moreover, it must begin with un-learning

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.

I simply must say, as crass as we are conditioned by a troubled society to regard the word, I am a firm believer in the comparative merits of the word 'fuck.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?

He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9 mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.

I know bashing, Pat, and this was unabashed bashing at its most fascist.

Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti- interesting? Because

Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay? GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No. SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

William Shakespeare

If I be waspish, best beware my sting.

What, you egg? [stabs him]

Get you gone, you dwarf, You minimus of hindering knotgrass made, You bead, you acorn!