Quotes About Provocation

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.

We've seen violent responses to 'Satanic Verses.' We've seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.

Once you do something violent in a film, you don't have to do too much. You do it once and the feeling of violence just stays there, do you know what I'm saying?

The only thing that would really make my mother angry would be if I liked horror movies or violence or Ronald Reagan. And very violent films were a way for me to rebel. You have to rebel against your parents.

In my case, I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction. The thing is, I can do anything I want, virtually, within reason, just to see people's reaction.

Miss Carson, you need to step outside and slap me again. The side you hit is mostly dead. You need to hit the other side of my face so I can feel it like I should.

The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.

I have never sought out anything but scandal, and I cultivate it for its own sake.

Haar zenuwen waren als koorden gespannen en trilden onder Betsy's beledigingen als onder ruwe handen.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Let the old Muse loosen her stays Or give me a new Muse with stockings and suspenders And a smile like a cat, With false eyelashes and finger-nails of carmine And dressed by Schiaparelli, with a pill-box hat. ... Give me a houri but houris are too easy, Give me a nun; We'll rape the angels off the golden reredos Before we're done.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made." ? Louise Rennison, Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Feel that? I don't walk around with a lead pipe in my jeans, so what do you think that tells you about how much I want you. (Simon Brant)

Who spit in your porridge?

I'm the kind of person you want to kill.

How's life?" "That's the stupidest question I've ever heard.

It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

I'm so bored I could sing to my dick.