Quotes About Iconoclasm

Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he will be recognized, praised, spoiled, idolatrized. In some countries the result has even been an academicism in reverse, the academicism of the "avant-garde" - to such a point that any artistic experience that makes no concessions to this new conformism is in danger of being stifled or ignored.

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

statues of saints in somebody else's religion. To me they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.

Louvre müzesini yakmak istiyordum. Antik Yunan heykellerini çekiçle k?rmak, k?ç?m? Mona Lisa'ya silmek istiyordum. Art?k bu benim dünyam. Bu benim dünyam, benim dünyam ve o antik insanlar?n hepsi öldü.

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

When you're young, you have way fewer taboo topics, and then as you go through life and you have experiences with people getting cancer and dying and all the things you would have made fun of, then you don't make fun of them anymore. So rebelliousness really is the province of young people—that kind of iconoclasm.

But by the time Madeleine reached the age that Alwyn had been then, she realized that her sister's iconoclasm and liberationist commitments had just been part of a trend. Alwyn had done the things she had done and voiced the political opinions she'd voiced because all her friends were acting and talking the same way.

In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it.

Salidos aquéllos del adoratorio, tiraron las imágenes al suelo, las cubrieron con tierra y orinaron encima";

Boniface urged the king to destroy the graven images he and his people were currently worshipping.

The world does not need a 'gay Elvis', for the original, with his black leather suit, pomaded pompadour, come-fuck-me eyes and radiant narcissism, was quite queer enough

Abrahamic tradition under nihilistic direction might not be what anyone wants, but it's what we have. Accelerating iconoclasm turns the world onto The Nothing. Nietzsche was right to interpret the only global history as this. There is no way out of it because it is itself the ultimate outside.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Smashing clay pots is called iconoclasm, a good thing when it's needed. The failure to do it when needed is called idolatry, always a bad thing. In both writing and faith, we need to commit conceptual suicide again and again—if we are serious about the vastness of the treasure and the inadequacy of our frail, finite, and flawed words.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.