Provocative Art Quotes

#1. I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.

Nikky Finney

#2. There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

Andres Serrano

#3. Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men above his desk for her.

Cecelia Ahern

#4. Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

William James

#5. Journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.

Andrea Mitchell

#6. We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle.

Allan Carr

#7. I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries ... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.

Roz Chast

#8. I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years.

Pierce Brosnan

#9. Art has the ability to change minds. Passion is what changes the world. When both collide, it's as powerful as a bomb. Art isn't pretty and poised fluff. Art is brutal and snarling. Artists growl. This is the roar of change that beats within them. - 8/29/11

A.H. Scott

#10. Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own.

Ruth Stafford Peale

#11. I'll never know what possessed my mother to steal my father's lions that night.

Laura Shepard Townsend

#12. Done coma, walking/talking,art, cookery. scouts then wrote two books, asked for help, gave a book to HRH Princess Anne, tried publisher, got another DEGREE, now Google Gillian Mk2, what else can I do?

Gillian Firth