Quotes About Controversial Art

#1. I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).

Yony Leyser

#2. Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.

Jane Alexander

#3. Flirting is a "controversial art form" that leaves the intended either flattered, infatuated, creeped out or getting a restraining order.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. When people listen they make a listening noise.

David Mitchell

#5. But after my fall and my near death, fear and caution

Oliver Sacks

#6. I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

Beth Ditto

#8. I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

Eloise Mumford

#9. My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.

Brian Froud

#10. I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.

Andrea Cremer

#11. Once you know the world you know how your character fits into it.

Rupert Sanders

#12. Even when they have been felled, let alone when they are still standing and fighting, they never disgrace themselves,

Tom Holland

#13. I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

Yoko Ono

#14. In the largest sense, every work of art is protest ... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it ... A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out ...

Pete Seeger

#15. Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

Marge Piercy

#16. If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity, that's when things get bent.

John Ridley