Quotes About Provocation

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

Her smile was a bite, and I was its target.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

If he provokes a war, his empire shakes, And all her lofty glories nod to ruin.

If they're going to get policewomen to jump me... I wish they'd get sexier ones..

Well, you're right. I'm a Freak." "Huh?" "I love being bullied. Being hit and kicked by others gets me totally excited. That's what kind of freak I am. Sorry if that bothers you.

I want to be bullied. But in again and you'll pay." "She... wants to be bullied...?

Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single teacup. So it finds a bull, gets inside its ear and starts buzzing. The bull goes wild with fear and anger, and destroys the china shop. (p.21)

When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged.

just as in 1914 the murder of an Austrian archduke sparked the First World War, so in 2018 some incident in the Syrian desert or an unwise move in the Korean peninsula might ignite a global conflict.

At present, I am particularly excited by "bad taste." I have the deep feeling that there exists in the very essence of bad taste a power capable of creating those things situated far beyond what is traditionally termed "The Work of Art." I wish to play with human feeling, with its "morbidity" in a cold and ferocious manner.

I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

Et maintenant, je n'ai plus peur de Le voir, Car si je Le vois, je Lui crache à la gueule...

Tell him to go to hell.

A phrase from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil came to mind: "Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.

Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.

Meet Curly and Mo," I said. "I want you to divide into two groups and form an orderly queue to give these two a bit of stick. Basically, do what you like to them. Punch them, kick them, knee them in the knackers. Pretend they're your boss, your spouse, or whoever's been giving you grief lately.

A writer uses his pen as a gun to kill readers.

Hearing this, I was reminded of Hajo's comment the previous summer. "People like David Irving do not throw firebombs. They throw the words that can cause others to throw those firebombs.

Hey, stronzo, che cazzo fai?" Mario demands.

You could wear the horns off a billy goat, you know that? Are you purposely trying to make me mad?

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don't validate. Indulge what you don't like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!

She wanted to smack the cocksure grin right off his face.